Sigismund Albicus
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and a Moravian
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Albicus was born at Uničov
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, Moravia
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and entered the University of Prague
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when quite young, taking his degree in medicine
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in 1387.
Desiring to pursue the study of civil
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and canon law
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with more profit, he went to Italy
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and received the Doctor
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's degree in 1404, at Padua
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On his return to Prague, he taught medicine for twenty years in the University. he was appointed physician-in-chief to Wenceslaus IV who recommended him as successor to the archdiocese of Prague
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, on the death of its incumbent in 1409.
The canons appointed him to the position, although reluctantly. Albicus held it only four years, and when he resigned, in 1413, Conrad
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was elected in his place.
Albicus received later the Priory of Vyšehrad and the title of Archbishop of Caesarea
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. he was accused of favouring the new doctrines of Jan Hus
Jan Hus
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and John Wycliffe
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. He retired to Hungary
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during the Hussite war, and died there, in 1427. He left three works on medical subjects, which were published after his death: "Praxis medendi"; "Regimen Sanitatis"; "Regimen pestilentiæ" (Leipzig, 1484-87). He died in Hungary
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