Mikołaj Oleśnicki the younger (30 April 1558 - 13 December 1629) was a Polish nobleman and latterly

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. He was son of Jan Oleśnicki, lord of Chmielnik in the voivodie of SandomirAdam A. WITUSIK, in PSB, t.23, p.771 His uncle was Lord Mikołaj Oleśnicki the elder (d. 1556) a Polish Calvinist nobleman who established the first Protestant academy in Poland at

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in 1550, and his aunt

Zofia Oleśnicka Zofia Oleśnicka (? in Pieskowa Skała – c.1567) was a Polish Calvinist noblewoman, for many years considered to be the first Polish woman poet for a collection of Protestant hymns published in Cracow in 1556. However more recent scholarship ha ...

(d. c.1567) was the first notable Polish woman poet. Raised a Calvinist, he converted in 1598 to Roman Catholicism, and became an important figure at court.

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Polish nobility 1558 births 1629 deaths Mikolaj {{Poland-noble-stub