Jerzy Szoman


Georg Schomann, circa 1526 in Racibórz, died in 1591 in Chmielnik) - reformist activist (Lutheran, Calvinist and Arian), writer, polemicist and Protestant clergyman, one of the translates the Biblical Bible.

In his youth he distinguished himself with profound Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Cracow Academy, and then in Wittenberg, where he accepted Lutheranism. He soon moved to Calvinism and moved to Pinczow, where he lectured at the local evangelical school between 1558 and 1561 and was a clergyman at the churches in Pinczów and Książ. He was one of the authors of the Calvary translation of the Biblical Bible. In Pińczów he founded a book collection (mostly Swiss Reformers) for a total of 40 ducats. He also married a sixteen-year-old burger.

In 1572, he became interested in the doctrine of anabaptism, and in 1572 he was baptized by the Polish friars and in 1572 he began to work as an arian preacher in Cracow, in Lutosławice (1586-1588) and in Chmielnik.

He presented his radical social views in polemical writings and in many debates, among others. the Sejm and synods; Among the most famous were the Shamans' dispute with the Jesuit Peter Skarga in the house of Prosper's Prowana in Cracow (home to top Italian anti-trinitarians, including Jerzy Blandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato and Giovanni Valentino Gentile). He also denounced Socin.

The most important work of Shoman is the autobiographical Testamentum ultimae voluntatis (published in 1684 in Amsterdam in "Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum" by Sandius), translated into Polish: Testament, crowd. Uchońska, in: "Arian literature in Poland of the sixteenth century. Anthology ", comp.



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