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GOSLICKI, WAWRZYNIEC (? 1533-16o7)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOSLICKI, WAWRZYNIEC (? 1533-16o7) , See also:Polish See also:bishop, better known under his Latinized name of See also:Laurentius Grimalius Goslicius, was See also:born about 1533. After having studied at See also:Cracow and See also:Padua, he entered the See also:church, and was successively appointed bishop of Kaminietz and of See also:Posen. Goslicki was an active See also:man of business, was held in high estimation by his contemporaries and was frequently engaged in See also:political affairs. It was chiefly through his See also:influence, and through the See also:letter he wrote to the See also:pope against the See also:Jesuits, that they were prevented from establishing their See also:schools at Cracow. He was also a strenuous See also:advocate of religious See also:toleration in See also:Poland. He died on the 31st of See also:October 1607. His See also:principal See also:work is De optimo senatore, &c. (See also:Venice, 1568). There are two See also:English See also:translations published respectively under the titles A See also:commonwealth of See also:good counsaile, &c. (1607), and The Accomplished Senacor, done into English by Mr Oldiswarth (1733).

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