Sigismund Albicus

Sigismund Albicus
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Native name	Zikmund Albík
Church	Catholic Church
See	Caesarea in Palaestina
In office	12 February 1413 – 23 August 1437
Successor	Zweder van Culemborg
Previous post	Archbishop of Prague (1412)
Personal details
Born	Zikmund Albík z Uničova 1360 (1360) Uničov, Moravia, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Died	23 August 1427(1427-08-23) (aged 66–67) Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary

Sigismund Albicus (Czech: Zikmund Albík z Uničova) (c. 1360 – 23 July 1427) was a Czech medical doctor, lawyer and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague.

Life

Albicus was born at Uničov, Moravia, and entered the University of Prague when quite young, taking his degree in medicine in 1387.

Desiring to pursue the study of civil and canon law with more profit, he went to Italy and received the Doctor's degree in 1404, at Padua.

Plaque of Sigismund Albicus in Uničov. There is written in Czech:

"There is no other meal than meat.
There is no other drink than wine. There is no other pleasure than woman."
Sigismund Albík from Uničov
about 1358–1457
archbishop of Prague,
court physician of last ones of Luxemburg dynasty.

On his return to Prague, he taught medicine for twenty years in the university. He was appointed physician-in-chief to Wenceslaus IV, who recommended him as successor to the archdiocese of Prague, on the death of its incumbent in 1409.

The canons appointed him to the position, although reluctantly. Albicus held it only four years, and when he resigned, in 1413, Conrad of Vechta was elected in his place.

Albicus later received the Priory of Vyšehrad and the title of Archbishop of Caesarea. He was accused of favouring the new doctrines of Jan Hus and John Wycliffe. He retired to Hungary during the Hussite war, and died there, in 1427. He left three works on medical subjects, which were published after his death: Praxis medendi; Regimen Sanitatis; Regimen pestilentiæ (Leipzig, 1484–1487).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sigismund Albicus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.