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), un ...

theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann (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, wh ...

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 15 ...

of the

Polish Brethren The Polish Brethren (Polish: ''Bracia Polscy'') were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658. By those on the outside, they were called "Arians" or " Socinians" (, ...

. 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

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and John Locke. He supervised the printing in Amsterdam by Frans Kuyper, first of the works of Johann Crell (1665) and then, backnumbered as "Volume 1" the works of his grandfather

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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.

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. 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 - Benedykt Wiszowaty (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

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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 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
in digital library

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