Michael Weiß (politician)

[1] Shortly, he began his political career, as secretary of Count Ferdinand von Hardek, and then by working for the Hungarian chancellor office in Prague.

He was chosen in the Assembly of the one hundred in 1591, then in 1594, as representative of Brassó in the Transylvanian Diet (the political and constitutional organ of the principality) and in the Senate, in 1600.

As representative and senator of Brassó, the voivodes István Bocskay, Sigismund Rákóczi and those of the Báthory family sent Weiß in several diplomatic missions, including to domnitor Radu Șerban of Wallachia.

He was beheaded, and his head was taken to Gabriel Báthory, in Nagyszeben (German: Hermannstadt, today Sibiu, Romania), as proof of victory.

Besides the poems written in his youth, Michael Weiß has left behind a few writings of importance with regard to his contemporary Brassó and Transylvania.