Hieronim Moskorzowski
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Hieronim Moskorzowski Moskorzów c.1560-1625), administrator of the Racovian Academy
, and writer of the Polish Brethren
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He came from a noble family, received a comprehensive education, and became involved with the movement of the Polish Brethren. He prepared the Polish and Latin text of the 1605 Racovian Catechism
, which Fausto Sozzini, who died in 1604, did not manage to complete. He worked together with Piotr Stoiński Jr.
and Jan Völkel.
Unlike the older generation of the Ecclesia Minor he was involved in politics and as a member of the Sejm
repeatedly defended the rights of minority believers and dissenters there. At the zjazd meeting of the nobility in Lublin (4 June 1606) he objected to the revolt of the nobility against the king and senators, and was elected to the committee that put together the articles of a request for nobles to the king.
Works: Oratio, qua brevis continetur calumniarum depulsio
Racovian Academy
The Racovian Academy was a school of the Socinian Polish Brethren operating in Raków, Kielce County, Poland 1602-1638, and publisher of the Racovian Catechism in 1605....
, and writer of the Polish Brethren
Polish Brethren
The Polish Brethren were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658...
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He came from a noble family, received a comprehensive education, and became involved with the movement of the Polish Brethren. He prepared the Polish and Latin text of the 1605 Racovian Catechism
Racovian Catechism
The Racovian Catechism 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, where the Racovian Academy and printing press was founded by Jakub Sienieński in...
, which Fausto Sozzini, who died in 1604, did not manage to complete. He worked together with Piotr Stoiński Jr.
Piotr Stoiński Jr.
Piotr Stoiński Jr. was a Polish Socinian Unitarian writer.Piotr was the son of Pierre Statorius the French Unitarian grammarian who emigrated to Poland wrote the first grammar of Polish...
and Jan Völkel.
Unlike the older generation of the Ecclesia Minor he was involved in politics and as a member of the Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....
repeatedly defended the rights of minority believers and dissenters there. At the zjazd meeting of the nobility in Lublin (4 June 1606) he objected to the revolt of the nobility against the king and senators, and was elected to the committee that put together the articles of a request for nobles to the king.
Works: Oratio, qua brevis continetur calumniarum depulsio