Századok – 2011
KISEBB CIKKEK - Guitman Barnabás: Adalékok Eck Bálint életéhez V/1245
1252 KISEBB CIKKEK gis Ferdinandi expugnata est, hóra 10. ante meridiam.50 V. E. 6. Aug. Hoc die celebrata est victoria, in qua superati, fusi, fugatique sunt Turcae a Germanis,51 ad arcem Szigeth et Baboltsam V. E. 10. Aug. Capta est Nagy-Ida prope Cassoviam, ab exercitu Ferdinandi. V. E. 5. Sept. Vir clariss. Valentinus Ecchius, curis suis liberatus, hodie ex hac vita placide decessit.52 F. B. CONTRIBUTIONS TO VALENTINE ECK'S LIFE by Barnabás Guitman (Summary) A lot of studies have been published by different authors about the erudite humanist from Bavaria, Valentine Eck / Valentinus Ecchius (1494-1556), his philosophical and poetical works as well as his text editions. Nevertheless, many questions concerning his life still need clearing. This short paper contains the first results of a fuller biography in preparation. The events of Eck's life are mostly displayed in his political writings and in his letters and other documents preserved in the Bardejov City Archives in Eastern Slovakia. Beyond the known facts, this paper brings new data concerning the last period of Eck's life. Possibly the most important of these is the exact day of his death, which could be fixed on the basis of a note in a Calendarium Historicum held in the Central Archives of the Lutheran Church in Budapest, Hungary. According to this, he quietly fell asleep on 5th September 1556. The Latin text of the source is published at the end of the article. 50 A másoló jegyzete: Latinis et hungaris dicitur Tarkő, slavis Kamenica, quam uti et Tartzam, eodem die plane Caesarianis deditum, auctor est Franc. Forgách 1. c. p. 184. 51 A másoló jegyzete: Duce Thoma de Nádasd Palatino, milite, ex Hungaris, Germanis ac Croatis mixto vid. Franc. Forg. 1. c. p. 156. István. 1. c. 52 A másoló jegyzete: Patria Lindaviensis, Bartphae Scholae Rector et primus Leonhardi Stöckeiii praeceptor erat, insignis poëta, qui eleganti carmine, tarn Paullo Bakits, quam Francisci Frangepanii, Archi-episcopi Colotscensis, an. 1542 mortui, laudes proesequutus est. Vid. Matric. 24. Regal. Hild. fol. 437. Andr. Lehotzky Stemmatograph. Part. 2. p. 69. Carol. Wagner Collect. Accad. 2. p. 37.
