Former house of the Polish brethren (Sienieńskiego street 6); currently a library and a home of a Society of Friends of Raków
The Racovian Academy (Latin: 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 1569 by Jan Sienieński [pl]. The academy was founded in 1602 by his son, Jakub Sienieński. The zenith of the academy was 1616–1630. It was contemporaneous with the Calvinist Pińczów Academy, which was known "as the Sarmatian Athens".[1] It numbered more than 1,000 students, including many foreigners. At this point it is estimated that ten to twenty percent of Polish intellectuals were Arians.[2]
The end of the Academy in 1638 was occasioned by the pretext of the alleged destruction of a roadside cross, by several students of the Academy, while on tour accompanied by a teacher Paludiusa Solomon. Jakub Zadzik, bishop of Kraków, Jerzy Ossoliński, voivode of Sandomierz, and Honorato Visconti, papal nuncio, forced the closure of the Academy and the destruction of all buildings by sentence of the Sejm in April 1638. Most of the teaching staff and students went into exile in Transylvania or the Netherlands.
^Erlich, Victor, ed. (1975). For Wiktor Weintraub: essays in Polish literature, language, and history presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Slavistic printings and reprintings. Vol. 312. The Hague: Mouton. p. 577. ISBN 9789027930415. Lubieniecki uses the term 'Sarmatia' only three times in the Historia: he writes of Pińczów 'as the Sarmatian Athens'.
^Müller, Gerhard; Balz, Horst; Krause, Gerhard (eds.). "Racovian Academy". Theologische Realenzyklopädie (in German). Vol. 31. Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 601.
The RacovianAcademy (Latin: Gymnasium Bonarum Artium) was a Socinian school operated from 1602 to 1638 by the Polish Brethren in Raków, Sandomierz Voivodeship...
who had founded a sizeable town in Raków, Kielce County, where the RacovianAcademy and printing press was founded by Jakub Sienieński in 1602. The Polish...
many books from the RacovianAcademy. The Englishman John Biddle had translated two works by Przypkowski, as well as the Racovian Catechism and a work...
of his students published in Polish and Latin from the press of the RacovianAcademy at Raków, Kielce County. The term Socinian started to be used in the...
earlier been printed by Rodecki and Sternacki at the printery of the RacovianAcademy 1602-1638. Volumes 1-8 1665,1668, 1692 Vols I-II Fausto Sozzini, Fausti...
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worked with Joachim Stegmann (1595–1633) on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the RacovianAcademy of the Polish Brethren. After the expulsion...
not hesitate to plunder even their homeland, where they sacked the RacovianAcademy university of the Polish brethren. Such actions were among the reasons...
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Tribander) was a Polish Arian scholar, and the last rector of the RacovianAcademy from 1634 to 1638. It has been suggested that the Latin name Tribander...
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founded by his father at Raków, Kielce County the RacovianAcademy and a printing-press, from which the Racovian Catechism was issued in 1605. In 1610, a Catholic...
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version of the Racovian New Testament. Several of Crell's works were printed first by Rodecki and Sternacki at the printery of the RacovianAcademy 1602-1638...
Dutch church in London. In 1631 he turned down an invitation from the RacovianAcademy, instead going to the Imperial court in Prague at the request of Michael...
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Germany, from where he returned to teach in Raków, Kielce County at the RacovianAcademy, and then in Lusławice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Following the 1639...
and his mother was Maria Wojnarowska, (died 1632). He studied at the RacovianAcademy in Raków, Kielce County, then in Leiden, and travelled across Western...
and other exiles, he did not mark the next four generations at the RacovianAcademy with his descendants. The fact that his major writings were in Polish...
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