Achacy Corell (older)

Achacy Corell, also Korel (born 1621 in Elblag, died March 31, 1659 in Elblag) - Elblag editor and publisher.

He was the son of Otto, a calligraphy teacher at the Elblag Grammar School, then an urban official and the mayor of Elblag, and Eve from the house of Zamehl, a native of the patrician city. From 1627 he attended the Elbląg Gymnasium, after graduating from which he entered the Academy of Arts and Sciences in September 1640. On his return to Elblag, he took up the work of an equalizer at Wendel Bodenhausen's press. When Bodenhausen died around 1642, Corell helped to run the estate of Annie Surawen in June 1646 to marry the owner and take possession of the building.

Corell has performed numerous orders for the Elbląg Gymnasium, as well as disputes for the needs of the last classes or invitations for the performances of the gymnasium theater, through school textbooks (including the first Elbląg prints in Polish, bilingual 40 dialogues by Mikołaj Volckmar), to the teachers of the school. Nine works at the outhouse of Corella were given by the Rector of the Jesuit School, Joachim Pastorius (eg De dignitate Historiae oratio in 1651, De conservanda litterarum gloria oratio inauguralis in 1653, and Palaestra nobilium seu consilium de generosum adolescentum in 1654), while professor of theology and philosophy Henry Nicolai has published several publications on the reception of heliocentric theory on Polish soil. Corell also published the work of Kurtzgefaste Kirchenhistorie der Bömischen Brüder Jan Amos Komenski (1648), just before the departure of this outstanding educator from Elblag after a 6 year stay.

In Corella's outbuildings there are also works by local writers - Fryderyk Zamhl, Balthasar Voidius, Achace Domssdorff. The Elblagan was crowned with occasional prints, related to celebrations, births, weddings, deaths or advances of local luminaries, as well as events beyond the local dimension, eg due to the death of King Ladislaus IV (Fryderyk Meibohm in 1649) or the coronation of his successor John Casimir Zygmunt Podkostelski). Finally, Corell published numerous religious writings, most notably the preaching literature; resumed Little Lutheran Catechism. In addition to the outbuildings, Catholic authors also used it.

The first Polish prints in Elblag include, among other things, the passage published by Corella to the complete freedom of Łukasz Górnicki (1650). Over a quarter of a century, Corella's out-of-print production has grown to an average of 18 per year. Shortly before his death, in connection with the town's occupation by the Swedes in the age of the flood, the owner moved his factory from the urban periphery to the Old Town. He died in the spring of 1659. The widow took over (the second wife, Elisabeth of the Preuss, married in 1656), and after reaching ten years later, Corella's only son, also Achacy. Bibliography

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