Jakub (Jacob) Babich ( Polish. Jakub Babicz , d. Circa 1526 ) - "the best burgomaster " of the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , Vilna , philanthropist .
| Yakub (Yakov) Babich | |
|---|---|
| Place of Birth | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
| Date of death | OK. 1526 |
| A country | |
| Occupation | burgomaster , philanthropist |
Biography
In his house on Bolshaya Street near the Town Hall in 1519, Francis Skorina founded a Slavic printing house for printing books in Cyrillic. Here were printed the Small Road Booklet (circa 1522) and the Apostle (1525). Both books were published in an edition close to the linguistic and religious traditions of the Belarusian and East Slavic writing. In their purpose and content, they differed from those rather rare works of handwritten book art, which were distributed mainly among the privileged sections of society.
The Small Road Booklet made it possible for relatively wide sections of the Belarusian population to get acquainted with some ideas of Ptolemaic astronomy . This was the first accurate forecast of solar and lunar eclipses for the years 1523-1530 in all East Slavic writing, which the church declared to be immune to the human mind and unpredictable. Yakub Babich provided financial assistance to Skorina.
Links
- Babich, Jacob // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.