Marcin Kromer

Marcin Kromer was a writer, diplomat, historian, music theorist, catholic priest and philologist (1512–1589). He was born at Biecz and died at Lidzbark Warmiński.

Marcin Kromer in brief

Born
1512
Died
1589
Known for
writer, diplomat, historian, music theorist, catholic priest, philologist, catholic bishop and chronicler
Place of birth
Biecz
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Career and activity

Recorded positions include ambassador, king's secretary at the Polish court and Roman Catholic bishop of Warmia.

Catalogued works

2 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection.

Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et Republica regni Polonici libri duo. De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX / [Martin Cromer]., dated 1558, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Kromer, Marcin, Oxford Music Online, 2001. Elements of state studies in historical works by Marcin Kromer, Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician, 2021. The Polonia Activities of Stanisław Reszka in Rome in the Light of Letters to Marcin Kromer (1569-1582), Studia Polonijne, 2020. Marcin Kromer, 'Musicae elementa', ed. and trans. into Polish by Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba, English trans. by Calvin M. Bower. Warsaw 2019, Muzyka, 2020. Marcin Kromer (1512–1589) w walce o reformę Kościoła w Polsce. „Sermo de tuenda dignitate sacerdotii”, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, 2022. Wprowadzenie, Perspektywy Kultury, 2022. „o to się staram, żeby […] twoje sprawy zostały dobrze załatwione”. Koadiutoria biskupstwa warmińskiego dla Marcina Kromera w świetle listów i zabiegów Jerzego z Tyczyna, Facta Simonidis, 2023. A Contribution to the History of the Altar of the Clothiers’ Guild in the Parish Church in Biecz, Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2018. Early tourism writing at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (15th C.-mid-17th C.), Tourism, 2009. Transformacja postaci Wizimira w kronikarstwie renesansowym (zaginiona kronika Wapowskiego, kroniki Bielskich), Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2022. Polonika starodruczne w bibliotekach naukowych Nowego Jorku, Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 2017. The Slavic World and Its Destiny in the Earliest Epoch of Its History according to the First Redaction of the Chronicle by Marcin Kromer, Slovene, 2017.

Digitised editions and texts

8 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

De falsa Lutheranorum, siue euangelicorum nostri temporis et vera Christi religione libri duo primi de quatuor Polonica lingua ante octo et nouem annos conscriptis atque editis, nunc recèns Latina lingua donati et aucti Martino Cromero authore. Cum indice rerum et verborum maximè insignium locupletissimo (1560) — Internet Archive. Agenda sacramentalia, ad vsum dioecesis VVladislauiensis accommodata. Cum adiunctis verbis et admonitionibus Polonicis et Germanicis. ... Martini Cromeri (1574) — Internet Archive. Martini Cromeri Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et ... (1901) — Internet Archive. Beschreibung des königreichs Polen (1741) — Internet Archive. Martini Cromeri De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri 30. Tertium ab authore diligenter recogniti. Funebris eiusdem autoris oratio, Sigismundi regis uitam compendiosè complexa, & aliquoties iam prius edita. Accessit iudicium Francisci Robortelli Vtinensis, de authore & (1568) — Internet Archive. Martini Cromeri Varmiensis episcopi Polonia siue De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri 30. Oratio funebris Sigismundi primi regis, deque situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus & Republica regni Poloniae, libri duo. Omnia nunc vltimò ab ipsomet auctore recognita, ac multis locis emendata & aucta. His accesserunt ... chartae (1589) — Internet Archive. De falsa nostri temporis, et vera Christi religione. Libri duo primi, de quatuor, Polonica lingua ante octo & nouem annos conscripti atque editis nunc recens latina lingua donati, & aucti. Martino Cromero authore (1559) — Internet Archive. Kronika polska Marcina Kromera .. (1882) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 20 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1512Marcin Kromer born at Biecz.
  2. 1558De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX / [Martin Cromer]. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1560De falsa Lutheranorum, siue euangelicorum nostri temporis et vera Christi religione libri duo primi de quatuor Polonica lingua ante octo et nouem annos conscriptis atque editis, nunc recèns Latina lingua donati et aucti Martino Cromero authore. Cum indice rerum et verborum maximè insignium locupletissimo digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1568Martini Cromeri De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri 30. Tertium ab authore diligenter recogniti. Funebris eiusdem autoris oratio, Sigismundi regis uitam compendiosè complexa, & aliquoties iam prius edita. Accessit iudicium Francisci Robortelli Vtinensis, de authore & digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1574Agenda sacramentalia, ad vsum dioecesis VVladislauiensis accommodata. Cum adiunctis verbis et admonitionibus Polonicis et Germanicis. ... Martini Cromeri digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1589Marcin Kromer died at Lidzbark Warmiński.
  7. 1589Martini Cromeri Varmiensis episcopi Polonia siue De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri 30. Oratio funebris Sigismundi primi regis, deque situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus & Republica regni Poloniae, libri duo. Omnia nunc vltimò ab ipsomet auctore recognita, ac multis locis emendata & aucta. His accesserunt ... chartae digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1741Beschreibung des königreichs Polen digitised by Internet Archive.
  9. 1901Martini Cromeri Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et ... digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    Elements of state studies in historical works by Marcin Kromer, Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician, 2021

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Kromer, Marcin, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Marcin Kromer (1512–1589) w walce o reformę Kościoła w Polsce. „Sermo de tuenda dignitate sacerdotii”, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, 2022

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  4. 4.

    Marcin Kromer, 'Musicae elementa', ed. and trans. into Polish by Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba, English trans. by Calvin M. Bower. Warsaw 2019, Muzyka, 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  5. 5.

    The Polonia Activities of Stanisław Reszka in Rome in the Light of Letters to Marcin Kromer (1569-1582), Studia Polonijne, 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 12 articles naming Marcin Kromer.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Internet Archive, 8 digitised items catalogued under Marcin Kromer as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Marcin Kromer.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q66649: Marcin Kromer

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10.

    “Marcin Kromer”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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