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Dudith, Andrá; Dudith, Andreas; Dudits, Andreas; Duditus, András; Duditus, Andreas
Born Buda (Budapest), Hungary, 5 February 1533
Died Breslau (Wroćlaw, Poland), 23 February 1589
Theologian András Dudits wrote a treatise on comets, in which he argued against astrology.
Both parents were of noble origin. Dudits’s father, Jeromos Dudits, died in a battle against the Turks, and his mother belonged to the Venetian noble family, the Sbardellat. He studied in Verona and Paris (1550–1553), then occupied high positions in the Catholic church - Canon of Esztergom (1557), Provost of Esztergom (1561), Bishop of Tina (Dalmatia) and Csanád (1562), and Bishop of Pécs (1563). In 1562/1563, Dudits served as the Hungarian representative to the Council of Trent. Later on in the 1560s, he fulfilled a diplomatic mission in Poland. His heretical view that priests should be allowed to marry led to his condemnation from the Catholic church. In 1567, Dudits was converted to the Lutheran faith...
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Costil, Pierre (1935). Andre Dudith, humaniste hongrois 1533–1589: Sa vie, son oeuvre et ses manuscrits grecs. Paris.
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Szabados, L. (2014). Dudits, András. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_383
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