Jan Łaski

A Polish theologian and Protestant reformer. Active as a Calvinist reformer, he interacted with Erasmus, Zwingli, Melanchthon, and others. In the 1540s, he promoted the Reformation in East Frisia, engaging in church reform centered in Emden from 1543. In England, during the reign of Edward VI, he acted as superintendent of foreign Protestant congregations, becoming superintendent of the Strangers' Church in London in 1550. Driven from England in 1553 following the accession of Mary I, he returned to Poland in 1556, where he worked under Sigismund II Augustus and played a major role in the Polish Calvinist Reformation.

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Year	Jan Łaski
1499	Birth of Jan Łaski (Period: 1499 (exact month and day unknown), Location: Presumed to be Łask (present-day Łódź Voivodeship, Poland), though recent research states the exact place of birth cannot be definitively determined)
1520	Hungarian Succession Struggle (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1520s–1530s, Location: Around the Kingdom of Hungary) Purchase of Erasmus's Library (Jan Łaski, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1520s–1536, Location: Basel (present-day Switzerland))
1523	Deepening Friendship with Erasmus in Basel (Jan Łaski, Age: 24 years old, Period: Circa 1523–, Location: Basel, Switzerland)
1537	Meeting with Melanchthon (Jan Łaski, Age: 38 years old, Period: 1537, Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1540	Break with the Catholic Church (Jan Łaski, Age: 41 years old, Period: Circa 1540–1543, Location: Leuven, Emden, etc.) Relocation to Leuven and Marriage (Jan Łaski, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1540, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium) Marriage (Jan Łaski, Barbara, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1540, Location: Leuven (present-day Belgium))
1542	Becoming Pastor of the Protestant Church in Emden (Jan Łaski, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1542, Location: Emden, East Frisia)
1543	Emden Church Reform (Jan Łaski, Age: 44 years old, Period: Circa 1543–1546, Location: Emden, East Frisia) Reform of the Church System in East Frisia (Jan Łaski, Age: 44 years old, Period: 1543–1546, Location: East Frisia centered on Emden)
1550	Organization of the Foreign Protestant Church in London (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1550–1553, Location: London, England) Publication of "Forma ac ratio" (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1550, Location: London, England)
1552	Marriage (Jan Łaski, Catherina, Age: 53 years old, Period: Circa 1552–circa 1553, Location: London, England)
1553	Escape of Religious Refugees from London (Jan Łaski, Age: 54 years old, Period: 1553–1554, Location: London, Copenhagen, Northern Germany, Emden) Expulsion from England Due to the Accession of Mary I (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1553, Location: From London to Denmark and Germany)
1555	Activities in the Protestant Community of Frankfurt (Jan Łaski, Age: 56 years old, Period: 1555, Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
1556	Return to Poland (Jan Łaski, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1556, Location: Poland)
1560	Death of Jan Łaski (Age: 61 years old, Period: January 8, 1560)

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Holy Roman Emperor	Maximilian von Habsburg Karl von Habsburg Ferdinand von Habsburg Rudolf von Habsburg Maria von Habsburg Maria von Spanien
German Reformation	Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Andreas Karlstadt Thomas Müntzer Martin Bucer Johannes Oecolampadius Georg Spalatin
German Renaissance Art	Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Lucas Maler Lucas Sunder Albrecht Altdorfer Matthias Grünewald
Polish Science	Nicolaus Copernicus Marcin Bylica Jan Łaski Jan Kanty Broziński

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