Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin ''Andreas Wissowatius'') ( Filipów 1608 - Amsterdam, 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 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 Bibliotheca fratrum Polonorum which was to influence Voltaire and

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

. He supervised the printing in Amsterdam by

Frans Kuyper Frans Kuyper (Latin: Cuperus) (1629, Amsterdam — 21 October 1691, Rotterdam) was a Dutch Socinian writer and printer. Life First a Remonstrant minister at Vlaardingen, he left the church on his objection to infant baptism. From 1663–1673 he ope ...

, 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 1668. He was working on a revised edition of the Racovian Catechism when he died in 1678, this was published in Amsterdam in 1680 and became the basis for

Thomas Rees Thomas Rees may refer to: Religious figures * Thomas Rees (Congregational minister) (1815–1885), Welsh Congregationalist minister * (1869–1926), Welsh theologian and editor, principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College, see 1926 in Wales * Th ...

' 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 condu ...

Family

Polish nobleman. Coat-of-arms: Pierzchała/Roch :great-grandfather

Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. (1522–1600) of the Leliwa coat of arms, was founder of the Polish Brethren community in Filipów in 1585. He was father of: * Krzysztof Morsztyn Jr. (c.1580–1642) who taught at the Racovian Academy. * Elżbieta Morszt ...

(1522-1600) founder of Filipow. :grandparents Fausto Sozzini and Elisabeth Morsztyn (sister of

Krzysztof Morsztyn Jr. Krzysztof Morsztyn Jr. (c.1580 – 1642) of the Leliwa coat of arms, was a Polish nobleman, educator, starosta of Filipow, and starosta of Przewałka. He was the son of Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. Krzysztof Morsztyn Sr. (1522–1600) of the Leliwa ...

c.1580-d.1642) :parents - Stanisław Wiszowaty and Agnieszka Sozzini. married - Aleksandra z Rupniowskich :son -

(c.1650-c.1704) :grandson -

Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr. Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr. (c.1690 – 1735) was a grandson of Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. He taught at the Unitarian Gymnasium in Kolozsvár (today Cluj ) from 1726 or before. It appears that Andrzej Jr. was born while his father Benedykt Wiszowaty was a Un ...

, born in exile in Prussia, from 1724 teacher at the Unitarian Academy in

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

, Transylvania.

Works

62 works including: * A dissertation against the Trinity, ''De sancta trinitate objectiones quaedam'' (1665), that was refuted by Leibniz 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 quos Unitarios vocant, instructua operibus omnibus Fausti Socini'' (1665, 1668). * Hymns and Psalms in Polish

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the developmen ...

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

References

External links

Works by Andrzej Wiszowaty
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