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Andrzej Węgierski (born 16 November 1600 in 
He came from the Węgierski noble family of
Ostroróg
Ostroróg is a town in Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,962 inhabitants (2010).
History
Ostroróg was first mentioned in 1383. It was granted town rights before 1412. There was a hospital in the town from 1472. Th ...
; died 11 January 1649 in Orzeszkowo) was a Polish Calvinist
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
historian, preacher, poet and translator.
He came from the Węgierski noble family of Belina coat of arms
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Azure, between horseshoes argent, two facing each, the third in base, a sword proper. the hilt in chief or ...
, descending from the village of Węgierki
Węgierki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Września, within Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Września and east of the regional capital Poznań
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in Greater Poland
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The bound ...
. He attended schools in Ostroróg, Leszno
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Leszno is a former residential cit ...
and Bytom Odrzański
Bytom Odrzański () is a town on the Oder river in western Poland, in Nowa Sól County of Lubusz Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 4,191.
History
Archaeological findings from the Stone Age and Bronze Age around Bytom ...
. From 1633 to 1648 he was the minister of the Calvinist congregation in WÅ‚odawa
WÅ‚odawa () is a town in eastern Poland on the Bug River, close to the borders with Belarus and Ukraine. It is the seat of WÅ‚odawa County, situated in the Lublin Voivodeship. it has a population of 13,500.
Geography
The town lies along the borde ...
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His main work was the ''Slavonia reformata, continentes historiam ecclesiasticam'' (1st Ed Germany 1652, 2nd Ed. Amsterdam 1679, modern edition Warsaw 1973) In this he gives the history of both the Calvinist
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
''ecclesia major'' and Antitrinitarian
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(Arian
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or Socinian
Socinianism ( ) is a Nontrinitarian Christian belief system developed and co-founded during the Protestant Reformation by the Italian Renaissance humanists and theologians Lelio Sozzini and Fausto Sozzini, uncle and nephew, respectively.
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) ''ecclesia minor'' of the Polish Brethren.Wacław Urban, ''Rola braci Węgierskich w podtrzymywaniu protestantyzmu polskiego,'' in ''Religia, edukacja, kultura. Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Profesorowi Stanisławowi Litakowi,'' ed. M. Surdacki, Lublin 2002, pp.47-51.
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