Laski, Jan (junior)

The representative of the Polish noble family Laskih coat of arms " Korab ". The son of the governor of Lenchitsky and Sieradz Yaroslav Laksky (died 1521 ) and Suzanna from Bonkovy-Gury (died after 1507 ). Brothers - voivods of Sieradz Jerome Lasky ( 1496 - 1541 ) and Stanislav Laski ( 1491 - 1550 ).

While studying at the University of Bologna , apparently carried away by the humanist movement . Returning to Poland, he was ordained a priest. When in the beginning of 1524 his elder brother Jerome went to France with diplomatic missions, Jan went along with him and began to intercourse with the Swiss and French humanists and reformers. For several months he lived in Basel with Erasmus and bought his library, with the proviso that she would remain at Erasmus’s disposal until his death.

A few years later, Lasky is announced in the Hungarian kingdom , where his brother Jerome fights for the interests of Zapolya ; on behalf of the latter, Jan came as ambassador to King Sigismund I (1531). After the death of his uncle, he served as administrator of the Archbishop of Gnezno . After taking a trip abroad in 1538 , he married in Louvain in violation of the rules of celibacy , which led to an open break with the Catholic Church.

In 1543, Laski was placed at the head of all Protestant churches in Ostflesland . Here he was faced with the difficult work of organizing a church, working out a dogma and fighting various sects. He performed it successfully and showed brilliant organizational skills. Nevertheless, during a short stay in Krakow in 1541, he took an oath before Primate Gamrat , who did not depart from the Roman Catholic faith.

In 1548, at the invitation of Cranmer , he helped him reform the English church . After vain attempts to continue his activities in Germany or Poland, Laskiy returned to England, where King Edward VI in 1550 appointed him superintendent of all foreigners' churches , giving them complete freedom in church administration. In England, Lusky married a second time.

The accession to the throne of the Catholic Mary Tudor forced Lasky again to begin the life of a wanderer, which lasted three years. Only in December 1556 he managed to return to Poland, where he was aggressively called Protestant pans and gentry. His belonging to the noble Polish family gave him access to the king, on whom he had some influence. He immediately became the soul of the Małopolska church; without his advice, the local Calvinists did nothing.

All the intrigues of the Catholic clergy, aimed at achieving his expulsion from Poland, did not lead to anything. Laskiy drove the influence of the Czech brothers out of Malaya Poland and tried to open access to Calvinism to Greater Poland and also reconcile it with Lutheranism . To this end, he took a trip to Duke Albrecht in Königsberg , left without result.

The device, which Lasky gave to the Małopolska church, satisfied the aspirations and desires of the then gentry . In the management of church affairs, a lot of space was assigned to the participation of the secular element. Despite, however, the entire authority of Lausky, he was unable to achieve uniformity in worship, rites and sacraments.

He is one of the translators of the Brest Bible (1563), the second (after the Catholic Bible Leopolitans ) complete translation of the Holy Scriptures into Polish .

• Laski, Jan (reformer of the 16th century) // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.