Jan Dantyszek
Jan Dantyszek or Johann Von Höfen is a humanistic Polish (1485 - 1548).
The family of Jan Dantyszek is originating in Germany, but as of the 14th century it settles in Varmie, from where it is established in Dantzig (later Gdańsk). The father of the future poet and diplomat was brewer and merchant.
Johann Von Höfen, born in 1485, called Flachsbinder (the Rope-maker), perhaps because of the profession of his/her grandfather, took the name of Dantiscus (orginaire of Dantzig), polonized in Dantyszek . It made its elementary studies at the parochial school of Grudziądz, obtained the baccalaureat with Cracow.
Before even the end of its studies it was allowed at the court of the king de Pologne Jan Olbracht, taking part in forwardings against the Moldavian Tatars and the . In 1504, it begins a diplomatic career which lasted nearly thirty years.
It went on many journeys as a secretary and an envoy of the king, visiting the Palestine, the Arabia, the Spain. It took part in 1515 in the dynastic interview of Vienna between the Jagellon and the Habsbourg. Humanistic from the Rebirth of a field crop, it obtained emperors Maximilien then Charles Quint of the titles of nobility and poetry. In the years 1524-1532 he was the first permanent diplomat of Poland at the imperial court.
Returning to Poland, it will be named bishop Chełmno, and in 1537, bishop of Varmie. It recorded the level of the schools of sound Diocèse, incentive the young people endowed to continue their studies. Becoming morally rigorous with time, he wanted to even bring a lawsuit with the canon Nicolas Copernic who lived in cohabitation. Faithful to the Catholicism, it fought the ideas Lutherans, dominant in the Prussia teutonic neighbor, secularized in 1525, like in many cities of royal Prussia. He dies in 1548 and is buried with Frombork.
Jan Dantyszek belongs to most important poets polono-Latinists. It begin with poems from circumstances to which it renonça not thereafter. It thus obtained a price for its epithalamium at the time of the marriage of king Zygmunt and Bona Sforza. At the same time, in 1518, he wrote an erotic poem ( Elegia amatoria/Ad Grinaeam ) with many references to mythology, but also to his private life, in the tone of the humanistic time. He wrote épinicies at the time of the victories of his king. One knows several epitaphs to him (of which that of the bishop Piotr Tomicki). Later, Jan Dantyszek was tested with parenetic poetry and moralisatrice in particular in a poem of 1535 warning the inhabitants of Gdańsk against the heresy ( Jonas propheta of interitu civitatis Gedanensis ). The year of its death appears a collection of anthems and hymns ( Hymni aliquot ecclesiastici ).