The educator of Protestants. Szymon Budny in the polish historiography Cover Image

Wychowawca protestantów. O postaci Szymona Budnego w historiografii polskiej
The educator of Protestants. Szymon Budny in the polish historiography

Author(s): Ewa Bukowska-Marczak
Subject(s): History, Education, Theology and Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: reformation in Poland;Calvinism;Arianism;Holy Bible;historiography;

Summary/Abstract: The theme of article is Szymon Budny in the polish historiography. Szymon Budny was one of the leading figures of polish Reformation. He wrote many important theological treatises (O oprawdanii hriesznaho czełowieka pried Bohom, O przedniejszych wiary chrystiańskiej artikulech, O urzędzie miecza używającym) and translated Holy Bible from the original languages to polish. Within centuries only a few polish historians and philologists (among them: Henryk Merczyng, Stanisław Kot and adjunct in the Faculty of Polish Language History of Wroclaw University – Jan Kamieniecki) wrote pieces about Budny. There authors considered him to be a well – educated person, who spend all his life trying to advance his own ideas and theories.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 659-667
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish