Siebenbürger Kolonitz, Martin#
Siebenbuerger (Kolonitz), Martin, d. Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria), Aug. 11, 1522 (executed). Humanist, university professor, dean of the Faculty of Law, municipal judge and mayor of Vienna; one of the main representatives of the nobles who revolted after the death of Maximilian I. Was sentenced to death by the Wiener Neustadt court under Ferdinand I.
Literature#
H. Lahoda, Der Staendekampf nach dem Tod Maximilians I., doctoral thesis, Vienna, 1949; A. Novotny, Ein Ringen um staendische Autonomie 1519-1522, in: MIOeG 71, 1965.