Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin ''Andreas Wissowatius'') ( Filipów 1608 -

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, 1678) was a

Socinian Socinianism () is a nontrinitarian belief system deemed heretical by the Catholic Church and other Christian traditions. Named after the Italian theologians Lelio Sozzini (Latin: Laelius Socinus) and Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus), uncle ...

theologian who worked with

Joachim Stegmann Joachim Stegmann Sr.(Potsdam 1595 - Cluj-Napoca 1633) was a German Socinian theologian, Bible translator, mathematician and rector of the Racovian Academy. Stegmann was born in Potsdam, and was a Lutheran pastor in Brandenburg, but from 1626 he be ...

(1595–1633) on the

Racovian Catechism The Racovian Catechism ('' Pol.'': Katechizm Rakowski) is a nontrinitarian statement of faith from the 16th century. The title ''Racovian'' comes from the publishers, the Polish Brethren, who had founded a sizeable town in Raków, Kielce County, ...

of 1605, and taught at the

Racovian Academy The Racovian Academy ('' la, Gymnasium Bonarum Artium'') was a Socinian school operated from 1602 to 1638 by the Polish Brethren in Raków, Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland. The communitarian Arian settlement of Raków was founded in 1569 ...

of the

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. After the expulsion and exile from Rakow in 1639 Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. is notable as the main mover in the printing of the

Bibliotheca fratrum Polonorum The ''Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant'' or ''Library of the Polish Brethren called Unitarians'' 1665, 1668, 1692 (not 1656 as incorrectly listed in some catalogs) is a collection of writings of the Polish Brethren published by ...

which was to influence

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and

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. He supervised the printing in Amsterdam by Frans Kuyper, first of the works of

Johann Crell Johannes Crellius (Polish: ''Jan Crell'', English: John Crell; 26 July 1590 in Hellmitzheim – 11 June 1633 in Raków) was a Polish and German theologian. Life Johann Crell's father, Johann Crell Sr., was pastor of the church at Hellmitzheim, ...

(1665) and then, backnumbered as "Volume 1" the works of his grandfather

Fausto Sozzini Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus ( pl, Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian theologian and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinian ...

1668. He was working on a revised edition of the

when he died in 1678, this was published in Amsterdam in 1680 and became the basis for Thomas Rees' English translation of 1818. His own major work ''Religio rationalis'' "Rational religion" was published by his son

Benedykt Wiszowaty Benedykt Wiszowaty (c.1650 – after 1704 Kosinowo) was a Polish Socinian, nobleman, author and publisher. After the Sejm expelled the Socinians from Poland, he left the country with his father. From 1666, they lived in Amsterdam, where he cond ...

Family

Polish nobleman. Coat-of-arms: Pierzchała/Roch :great-grandfather Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. (1522-1600) founder of Filipow. :grandparents

and Elisabeth Morsztyn (sister of Krzysztof Morsztyn Jr. c.1580-d.1642) :parents - Stanisław Wiszowaty and Agnieszka Sozzini. married - Aleksandra z Rupniowskich :son -

(c.1650-c.1704) :grandson - Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr., born in exile in Prussia, from 1724 teacher at the Unitarian Academy in

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Works

62 works including: * A dissertation against the Trinity, ''De sancta trinitate objectiones quaedam'' (1665), that was refuted by

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in 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 The ''Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant'' or ''Library of the Polish Brethren called Unitarians'' 1665, 1668, 1692 (not 1656 as incorrectly listed in some catalogs) is a collection of writings of the Polish Brethren published by ...

quos Unitarios vocant, instructua operibus omnibus Fausti Socini'' (1665, 1668). * Hymns and Psalms in Polish

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in ''Zur Geschichte und Literatur'' (Des Andreas Wissowatius Einwürfe wider die Dreifältigkeit, 1773)

References

External links

Works by Andrzej Wiszowaty
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiszowaty, Andrzej 1608 births 1678 deaths Polish Unitarians People from Suwałki County 17th-century Polish philosophers