Tomasz Drezner (1560–1616) was a Polish

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. The fame of Drezner's 1601 work, ''Processus iudiciarius Regni Poloniae'' (Judicial Procedure in the Kingdom of Poland), saw him admitted to the service of Royal Chancellor

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and allowed him to study in

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and

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and Polish law at the

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, whose rector he became in 1615.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drezner, Tomasz 1560 births 1616 deaths People from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth