Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic

Who was Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic?

Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic was a nobleman, writer and humanist of old Bohemian family of Lobkovic.

He was born at Hasištejn Castle near Kadaň, Bohemia. He studied in Bologna and Ferrara and converted from Utraquism to Catholicism there. After 1483, provost of Vyšehrad in Prague and between 1490-91 made travel to the Holy Land and Egypt. He was elected the bishop of Olomouc, but he was refused by the Pope. 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. 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.

He died at Hasištejn Castle in 1510.