Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
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n family (later the princes) of Lobkovic.
He was born at Hasištejn
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Hasištejn is a ruined medieval castle in Bohemia, the Czech Republic. It is situated near Kadaň, Klášterec nad Ohří and Chomutov.The castle, first mentioned in Maiestas Carolina, was probably founded by Friedrich of Schönburg to guard the way from Prague to Saxony...
Castle near Kadaň
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, Bohemia. He studied in Bologna
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and Ferrara
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(doctor of law, 1482) and converted from Utraquism
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to Catholicism
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there. After 1483, provost
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of Vyšehrad
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in Prague
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and between 1490-91 made travel to the Holy Land
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and Egypt
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. He was elected the bishop of Olomouc
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, but he was refused by the Pope
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. After this, he lived with few of his writer friends in his 'tusculum', Hasištejn Castle in north-eastern Bohemia.
Lobkovic was an author of philosophical prose, letters, and verses, amongst them a satire on Bohemian national life Ad sanctum Venceslaum satira (1489). He was successful essayist and poet, and became poeta laureatus.
His good friends were Jan Šlechta z Všehrd, philosopher, and Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd, theorist of Bohemian common law. He was brother to Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic was a Bohemian diplomat to Luxembourg 1477 and Rome 1487 in the time of Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. The king sent him to negotiate a marriage with Mary of Burgundy. He made a journey to Palestine in 1493 and wrote a travel book about it called Pilgrimage to...
.
He died at Hasištejn Castle in 1510.