Andrzej Wiszowaty
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Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr.
)Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin Andreas Wissowatius) (
Socinian theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann (1595–1633) on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the Racovian Academy of the Polish Brethren
.
After the expulsion and exile from Rakow in 1639 Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. is notable as the main mover in the printing of the
Thomas Rees' English translation of 1818. His own major work Religio rationalis "Rational religion" was published by his son Benedykt Wiszowaty
.
Family
Polish nobleman. Coat-of-arms: Pierzchała/Roch
- great-grandfather Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. (1522-1600) founder of Filipow.
- grandparents Fausto Sozzini and Elisabeth Morsztyn (sister of Krzysztof Morsztyn Jr. c.1580-d.1642)
- parents - Stanisław Wiszowaty and Agnieszka Sozzini.
married - Aleksandra z Rupniowskich
- son - Benedykt Wiszowaty (c.1650-c.1704)
- grandson - Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr., born in exile in Prussia, from 1724 teacher at the Unitarian Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania.
Works
62 works including:
- A dissertation against the Trinity, De sancta trinitate objectiones quaedam (1665), that was refuted by Leibnizin his Defensio Trinitatis contra Wissowatium (1669).
- Narratio compendiosa quomodo in Polonia a Trinitariis Reformatis separati sint Christiani Unitarii (1678).
- Religio rationalis, seu de Rationis judicio in controversiis, etiam theologicis ac religiosis (posthumously 1685).
Publisher in Amsterdam with Kuyper of the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant, instructua operibus omnibus Fausti Socini (1665, 1668).
- Hymns and Psalms in Polish[1]
References
- ^ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Des Andreas Wissowatius Einwürfe wider die Dreifältigkeit, 1773)
External links
- Works by Andrzej Wiszowaty in digital library Polona
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