Marcin Wadowita (; 1567 – 27 January 1641) also known as Wadovius or Campius, was a Polish priest,

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, and the Deputy Chancellor of

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

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; under his tenure the university is said to have prospered. He was born in

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, where he later funded several buildings. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and abroad – in

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Publications

He wrote and published in Kraków ten Latin theological treatises: #"Qvaestio De Incarnatione" (Treatise on the Incarnation), 1603 #"Qvaestio De Christi Merito" (Treatise on the Merits of Christ"), 1604; #"Qvaestio De Divina Volvntate Et Radice Continentiae" (Treatise on the Divine Will and the Root of Continence"), 1608;" #Qvaestio De Hypostasi Aeternae, Foelicitatis, Primoqve Medio Salvtis, Interno Actv Fidei "(Treatise on the First Way of Eternal Union, Happiness, and Salvation: The Internal Act of Faith"), 1616; #"Disputatio theologica" (Theological Reflections), 1620, #"Qvaestio merito de Christi Domini" (Treatise on the Merits of Christ the Lord), 1620; #"Disputatio de evidentia misterii" (Reflections on Proof of the Mystery), 1622; #Eucharistiae Sacramento (Treatise of divine sacrament of the Eucharist), 1622, #"Qvaestio De Invenienda, Cognoscenda, discernenda vera Christi Ecclesia in Terris" (Treatise on the obligation search of knowledge, distinguishing the true Church of Christ on earth), 1636; #"Qvaestio De Visione Beata" (Treatise on the Beatific Vision), 1638Estreicher," American Bibliography ", 1938, vol 32

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1567 births 1641 deaths People from Wadowice Jagiellonian University alumni 16th-century Polish nobility Polish Roman Catholic theologians Polish Roman Catholic priests Academic staff of Jagiellonian University 17th-century Polish nobility {{Poland-noble-stub