Andrzej Krzycki

Andrzej Krzycki of the Kotwicz coat of arms (also known as Andreas Cricius in Latin; 7 July 1482 – 10 May 1537) was a Renaissance Polish writer and archbishop.

[2] He studied rhetoric, clerical, and civil law at the University of Bologna[3] under prominent humanists, and started a career in church hierarchy in 1501.

[4] The Reformation, then rapidly spreading, filled him with dismay, and was the occasion of the most serious work that he produced, Religionis et Reipublicae quaerimonia (1522).

When Albert of Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, became a Lutheran, and Sigismund I recognized him as his vassal and Duke of East Prussia, Krzycki in a letter written to Baron Pulleon, tried to explain and justify this action of his sovereign.

His last work, De Asiana Dieta, was a criticism of the Polish diets or assemblies common in his time.