Johann Ludwig von Wolzogen (1599–1661) was an Austrian nobleman and

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. Wolzogen was born in

Nové Zámky Nové Zámky (; hu, Érsekújvár; german: Neuhäus ; la, Novum Castrum; tr, Uyvar) is a town in Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of southwestern Slovakia. Geography The town is located on the Danubian Lowland, on the Nitra River, ...

(modern Slovakia), known then as Neuhäusel in German and Érsekújvár in Hungarian. He inherited the titles of Baron of Tarenfeldt and Freiherr of Neuhäusel.

Comenius John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considere ...

became acquainted with Wolzogen in 1638. And Wolzogen took issue with the followers of Descartes. Wolzogen was a distinguished exegete, and, besides his Bible commentaries, wrote a ''Compendium religionis Christiana'' and a criticism of the doctrine of the Trinity . Among the early Unitarians Wolzogen is among those noted for his uncompromising preaching of

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. along with Joachim Stegmann and Daniel Zwicker. He died in

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Works

Translations from French to Polish by Wolzogen

* Johann Ludwig Wolzogen - Uwagi do medytacji metafizycznych René Descartes'a (Polish)

Posthumous

Biblioteca Fratrum Polonorum The ''Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum'', or ''Antitrinitarian Library'', first published in 1684, is a posthumously published work of Christopher Sandius (English: Christopher Sand), an exiled Prussian Antitrinitarian in Amsterdam, who chronologicall ...

Vol.vii-viiiBibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant : instructa operibus omnibus Fausti Socini Senensis, noblissimi Itali, Johannis Crellii Franci, Jonae Slichtingii da Bucowietz, Equitis Polini, exegeticis & Johannis Ludovici Wolzogenii Baronis Austriaci, quae omnia simul juncta totius Novi Testamenti explicationem complectuntur. Johannis Ludovici Wolzogenii Baronis Austriaci : Opera omnia, exegetica, didacteca, et polemica, Quorum Seriem versa pagina exhibet, Cum indicibus necessariis. Frans Kuyper Amsterdam 1668 * De Scripturarum interprete adversus exercitatorem paradoxum libri duo 1668

Online edition

''Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum'' Online

References

1599 births 1661 deaths 17th-century Austrian Roman Catholic theologians Barons of Austria Austrian Unitarians Austrian people of Hungarian descent People from Nové Zámky {{Hungary-reli-bio-stub