Stanisław Lubieniecki (German: Stanislaus de Lubienietz, also Lubiniezky or Lubyenyetsky) (August 23, 1623 in
Raków – May 18, 1675 in
Hamburg) was a Polish
Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer. He is the
eponym of the
lunarcraterLubiniezky.
Family
He was born into an aristocratic family closely linked with
Socinianism:
Father: Krzysztof Lubieniecki (1598–1648) Arian minister
His
Socinian hometown
Raków,
Sandomierz Voivodeship of
Lesser Poland, was founded about a hundred years earlier and had about 15,000 inhabitants. A decree by the Polish
Sejm of 1639 forbade religions other than Catholicism (
counter-reformation). The inhabitants of his hometown were expelled and their homes destroyed and by 1700 only 700 people remained.
Stanislaus then went to study in France and the
Netherlands, he came to live in Hamburg where he met considerable resistance from the Lutheran clergy. Lubieniecki and his two daughters Catherine Salomea and Griselda Constance, died of
mercury poisoning, probably as the result of a mistake by a domestic servant. His wife survived.[1][2][3]
Works
Historia Reformationis Polonicae : in qua tum reformatorum tum antitrinitariorum origo & progressus in Polonia & finitimis provinciis narrantur. 1685. published posthumously by
Benedykt Wiszowaty
Theatrum cometicum, duabus partibus constans. 1668. Is an illustrated anthology of 415 comets from the biblical epoch of the deluge up until 1665.
References
^Lubieniecki, Stanisław (1995).
Williams, George H. (ed.). History of the Polish Reformation : and nine related documents. Harvard theological studies. Vol. 37. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
^Jørgensen, Kai E. Jordt (1968). Stanisław Lubieniecki (in Danish). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 112 ff.
OCLC771320294.