Maciej Miechowita

Maciej Miechowita

Maciej Miechowita (also known as Maciej z Miechowa, Maciej of Miechów, Maciej Karpiga, Matthias de Miechow; 1457 – 8 September 1523) was a Polish Renaissance scholar, professor of Jagiellonian University, historian, chronicler, geographer, medical doctor (royal physician of king Sigismund I the Old of Poland), alchemist,[1] astrologer[2] and canon in Kraków.

Life

He studied at the Jagiellonian University (also known that as the Cracow Academy), obtaining his master's degree in 1479. Between 1480-1485 he studied abroad. Upon his return to the country, he became a professor at the Jagiellonian University, where he served as a rector eight times (1501–1519), and also twice as a deputy chancellor of the Academia. He lived in the Długosz House from 1514 to 1516.

His Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (Treatise on the Two Sarmatias) is considered the first accurate geographical and ethnographical description of Eastern Europe. It provided the first systematic description of the lands between the Vistula, the Don and the Caspian Sea. This work also repeated after Jan Długosz and popularised abroad the myth of Sarmatism: that Polish nobility (szlachta) are descendants from the ancient Sarmatians.[3]

His Chronica Polonorum ("Polish Chronicle") is the developed, larger treaty about Polish history and geography. Contra pestem sevam regimen and Conservatio sanitatis are his two printed medical treaties, about how to combat epidemics and on benefit of sanitation.

He has also written other works, many of which appeared only in manuscripts and were not printed during his lifetime, like his biography of Saint John Cantius.

Selected works

Title page of the first edition of Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis
  • Contra pestem sevam regimen, print. 1508;
  • De sanguinis missione, print. 1508;
  • Conservatio sanitatis, print. 1512;
  • Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Europiana et Asiana et de contentis in eis, print. 1517;
  • Chronica Polonorum, print. 1919, 1921.

See also

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2002-11-20 at the Wayback Machine; Włodzimierz Hubicki, "Fuitne olim alchimia in Academia Cracoviensi lecta?" Kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki 9 (1964): 199–210.
  2. ^ "But also Jan Kochanowski, Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski, Stanis?aw Hozjusz, Jan Sobieski, Hugon Ko???taj and other distinguished Polish politicians and writers of the Partitions period". Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  3. ^ Andrzej Wasko, Sarmatism or the Enlightenment:The Dilemma of Polish CultureSarmatian Review XVII.2, online

Further reading

Marek Stachowski: Miechowita's knowledge of East European languages (mainly Hungarian, Lithuanian and Tatar), based on his Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (1517). – [in:] Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 130 (2013): 309-316.


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