HIERONYMUS JAROSLAW

LASKI (1496—1542)  , Polish diplo- Opera edited by A . Kuyper at Amsterdam in 1866 . He died at matist, nephew of Archbishop Laski, was successively palatine Pinczow in January 1560 and was buried with great pomp by of Inowroclaw and of Sieradia . His first important mission was the Polish Protestants, who also struck a medal in his honour. to Paris in 1524, ostensibly to contract an anti-Turkish league Twice married, he left two sons and two daughters . His nephew (?) Albert Laski, who visited England in 1583, wasted a fortune with the French king, but really to bring about a matrimonial in aid of Dr Dee's craze for the " philosopher's stone." Laski's alliance between the dauphin, afterwards Henry II., and the daughter of King Sigismund I., a project which failed through writings are important for the organization of the ecclesia no fault of Laski's . The collapse of the Hungarian monarchy peregrinorum, and he was concerned in the Polish version of the at Mohacs (1526) first opened up a wider career to Laski's Bible, not published till 1563 . See H . Dalton, Johannes a Lasco (1881), English version of the adventurous activity . Contrary to the wishes of his own earlier portion by J . Evans (1886); Bartels, Johannes a Lasco sovereign, Sigismund I., whose pro-Austrian policy he detested, (186o) ; Harboe, Schicksale des Johannes a Lasco (1758); R . Wallace, Antitrinitarian Biography (185o); Bonet-Maury, Early Sources of Eng . Unit .

Christianity (1884); W . A . J . Archbold in Dicta Nat . Biog . (1892) under " Laski," George Pascal, Jean de Lasco (Paris, 1894); Life in Polish by Antoni Walewski (Warsaw, 1872); and Julian Bukowski, History of the Reformation in Poland (Pol.) (Cracow, 1883) . (R . N .