From there, he transferred to the town school in Louny, where he worked as a teacher for four and a half years from 1596 until 1599 (in 1598 he was investigated together with others for an offensive song about the municipal administration).
Together with Karel Chotek von Chockov (who later joined the Bohemian Revolt and the Saxon invasion of Bohemia in 1631) and famulus Martin Reissig from Bitozeves, they enrolled at the academy in Altdorf, Nuremberg, on 27 December 1600.
[2] Having been ordained to priesthood in Zerbst, in today's Saxony-Anhalt – a centre of Calvinism following the Reformation – on 27 May 1605,[5] he was appointed chaplain at St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora.
On 24 January 1606, he married at St. Barbara Kateřina from Most, who was a servant to Řehor Zhorský Kladrubský, a burgher and writer of the town of Louny.
[6][7][8][9] Before the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, he became the ecclesiastical administrator of the rectory in Hrušovany, Polepy, on the estate of Ladislav Žejdlic of Šenfeld (Seydlitz von Schönfeld).