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Pierre Statorius, pl, Piotr Stoiński, Piotr Stojeński (
Tonneville,
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Infér ...
, 1530 –
Pińczów
Pińczów is a town in southern Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 12,304 (2005). Pińczów belongs to the historic Polish province of Lesser Poland, a ...
, or
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ...
1591) was a French grammarian and theologian, who settled among the
Polish Brethren
The Polish Brethren (Polish: ''Bracia Polscy'') were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658. By those on the outside, they were called "Arians" or " Socinians" (, ...
, becoming rector of a Calvinist Academy in Pińczów at the invitation of
Francesco Lismanino
Francesco Lismanini (Corfu, ca. 1504 - Königsberg, April 1566) was an Italian Franciscan friar of Greek origin, who converted to Calvinism and also a Protestant reformer.
Biography
His Greek parents soon moved to Italy and in 1515 the family ar ...
.
The place of birth and real name of Statorius are difficult to establish. According to the letter of
Théodore de Bèze of 12 July 1567, Statorius was a student of his. In the accounts of the Baillif of Lausanne Hans Frisching for 1550 appears "Pierre de Tonneville", who signed his Latin letters "P. Tonvillanus S." and claimed to have come from the "pays Séquanes" which indicates
Tonneville, Seine-Maritime, not
Thionville
Thionville (; ; german: Diedenhofen ) is a city in the northeastern French department of Moselle. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.
History
Thionville was settled as early as the time of the ...
, Metz.
He is known in Poland as ''Piotr Stoiński Sr.,'' (also ''Stojeński''), to distinguish from his son,
Piotr Stoiński Jr. (1565–1605) co-author of the
Racovian Catechism
The Racovian Catechism ('' Pol.'': Katechizm Rakowski) is a nontrinitarian statement of faith from the 16th century. The title ''Racovian'' comes from the publishers, the Polish Brethren, who had founded a sizeable town in Raków, Kielce County, wh ...
and teacher at the
Racovian Academy
The Racovian Academy ('' la, 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 15 ...
.
Works
He was one of the team which produced the
Brest Bible
The Brest Bible ( pl, Biblia Brzeska) was the first complete Protestant Bible translation into Polish, published by Bernard Wojewodka in 1563 in Brest and dedicated to King Sigismund II Augustus.
Polish full original title: ''Biblia święta, T ...
1558–1563.
He wrote the first grammar of Polish, ''Polonicae grammatices institutio'' (1568).
[Glanville Price, ''Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe'' (2000), p. 361.]
See also
* family
References
External links
*
:ru:s:ЭСБЕ/Стоенский, Петр
* Pierre Statorius
Polonicae grammatices institutio(1568) in Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (in Latin)
1530 births
1591 deaths
16th-century Polish people
16th-century French people
16th-century Protestant religious leaders
Polish Unitarians
French Unitarians
Linguists of Polish
Translators of the Bible into Polish
French expatriates in Switzerland
French emigrants to Poland
Polish people of French descent
People from Manche
People from Pińczów County
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