Andreas Dudith

Andreas Dudith (Croatian: Andrija Dudić Orehovički), also András Dudith de Horahovicza; * February 5, 1533 in Buda † February 22, 1589 in Wrocław), was a Hungarian nobleman of Croatian origin, humanist and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Dudić was born in Buda, capital city of the Kingdom of Hungary to a Hungarian noble family with Croatian origin. He studied in Wrocław, Italy, Vienna, Brussels and Paris.

In 1560 king Ferdinand I appointed him the bishop of Knin, Croatia. He then participated in the Council of Trent (1545–1563) where, in compliance with the wish of Ferdinand, he urged that the cup be given to the laity. Being appointed bishop of Pécs, Dudith went to Poland in 1565 as ambassador of Maximilian, where he married, and resigned his see, becoming an adherent of Protestantism. In Poland he began to sympathize with Socinian Anti-trinitarianism (the so-called Ecclesia Minor). Although he never declared himself officially a Unitarian, some researchers label him as one of the Anti-trinitarian thinkers.

After the election of Stephen Báthory as king of Poland, Dudić left Kraków and went to Wrocław and later to Moravia, where he supported the Bohemian Brothers.

Dudith maintained correspondence with famous Anti-trinitarians such as Giorgio Blandrata, Jacob Paleologus and Fausto Sozzini. Mihály Balázs, an expert on Central-European Anti-trinitarianism, affirms that Paleologus in Kraków lived in Dudić's house and departed from here to Transylvania.^[1] The theories of Blandrata, Sozzini and Ferenc Dávid had a great influence on him; nevertheless he always remained an Erasmian humanist, who condemned religious intolerance whether it came from Protestants or Catholics.

He died in 1589 in Wrocław and was buried in the Saint-Elizabeth Lutheran Church.

References

1. ^ Mihály Balázs Early Transylvanian Antitrinitarianism, 1566–1571: From Servet to Palaeologus. English translation by György Novák.

Further reading

Almási, Gábor (2009), Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the Republic of Letters in East Central Europe, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9789004181854.

Costil, Pierre (1935), André Dudith Humaniste Hongrois 1533-1589: Sa Vie, son Oeuvre et ses Manuscrits Grecs, Paris: Société D'édition “Les Belles Lettres.”

Gillet, J.F.A. (1860-61), Crato von Crafftheim und seine Freunde, 2 vols. Frankfurt: H.L.Brönner.

Jedin, Hebert (1912-), “André Dudith,” in Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Paris, vol. 14, 988-990.

External links

• Epitaph of Andreas Dudith at the St. Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw
• De Cometis Dissertationes Novae Clariss. Virorum Thom. Erasti, Andr. Dudithij, Marc. Squarcialupi, Symon. Grynaei. Basileae 1580, Online-Edition of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

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