Fausto Sozzini

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Fausto Sozzini
Mausoleum of Faustus Socinus in Luslawice

Fausto Paolo Sozzini , also Sozini , Socini , Sozin and Faustus (* December 5, 1539 in Siena , † March 3, 1604 in Lusławice , Poland ), was an Italian lawyer and Unitarian theologian and, together with his uncle Lelio Sozzini, became a leading figure the kind of Unitarianism that was later called Socinianism .

Live and act

Sozzini was the second child of Alessandro Sozzini and his wife Agnese Petrucci after their daughter Fillide. He was an orphan at an early age and was taken in by his uncle Celso. He studied law in Bologna and took an early interest in theological questions. He had to leave his hometown Siena in 1559 and lived in Zurich from 1562 . By keeping and studying the literary estate of his uncle Lelio Sozzini, he also acquired his theological convictions. In 1563 he returned to Italy and was secretary at the Florentine court for twelve years , during the last years of the reign of Cosimo I de 'Medici . In 1574 he had to flee again from the Inquisition and went to Basel , where he continued to study theology. In 1578 he moved on to Transylvania to act as arbiter in the dispute that broke out between Franz Davidis and Giorgio Biandrata over the adoration of Christ. Just as unsuccessfully, he fought the Anabaptist positions of the Polish brothers there in Cracow the following year . It was not until 1603 that Anabaptist tendencies were excluded from the Unitarian community.

From 1583 to 1587 Sozzini lived in Pawlikowice , under the protection of Krysztof Morsztyn, where he married his daughter - Elisabeth Morsztyn, in 1586. From 1587 he lived again in Cracow, where the only child of the marriage was born - Agnieszka, the mother of Andrzej Wiszowaty . After the Krakow students mistreated him as a heretic and all his papers had been burned, he moved to nearby Lusławice in 1598, where he spent the last years of his life under the protection of a Polish nobleman. Sozzini was instrumental in the creation of the Raków Catechism of the Polish Brothers, which was first published a year after his death .

Works

  • Brevis explicatio in primum Iohannis caput. Lyon 1562, Amsterdam 1569 (German: Brief explanation of the prologue of the Gospel of John . (There is also a Brevis explicatio in primum Iohannis caput (1559) by Lelio Sozzini).
  • Fausti Socini senensis opera omnia (German: Complete work of Fausto Sozzini from Siena ), ed. E. Scribano, 2004

literature

  • Duccio Fabbri, Fausto Socini nemo propheta in patria sua , GoWare, Firenze 2018, ISBN 978-88-336-3030-4 .
  • Erich Wenneker :  Sozini (Socini, Sozzini), Fausto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 849-857.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Luca Baschera: Sozzini, Fausto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Friedrich Trechsel: Michael Servet and his predecessors: historically presented according to sources and documents. The Protestant anti-Trinitarians before Faustus Socin, Volume 1, Verlag K. Winter, Heidelberg 1839 (originals in Lausanne & Harvard University; digitized 2008)
  • Friedrich Trechsel: Lelio Sozini and the anti-Trinitarians of his time: historically depicted according to sources and documents. The Protestant anti-Trinitarians before Faustus Socin, Volume 2, Verlag K. Winter, Heidelberg 1844
  • John M'Clintock and James Strong: Faustus Socinus (Fausto Sozzini), in: Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Harper & Brothers, New York 1894.
  • Paul Wrzecionko (ed.): Reformation and Early Enlightenment in Poland: Studies on Socinianism and its Influence on Western European Thinking in the 17th Century , Volume 14 of Monographs, Church in the East, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977, ISBN 978-3-525 -56431-8
  • Manfred Edwin Welti: Small history of the Italian Reformation, Volume 193, writings of the Association for Reformation History , Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, digitized 2006 University of Michigan, ISBN 978-3-579-01663-4 , pp. 23-136
  • Ernst Feil : Religio - The History of a Modern Basic Concept, Volume 3, Research on Church and Dogma History, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-525-55187-5 , p. 263 f: 4. Positions of Socinianism
  • Barbara Sher Tinsley: Pierre Bayle's Reformation: Conscience and Criticism on the Eve of the Enlightenment, Susquehanna University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-57591-043-7 , p. 302 f: chap. 14: Faustus Socinius (1539 604), pious rationalist
  • Herbert Jaumann : Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Early Modernzeit, Vol. 1, Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-016069-7 , pp. 617–619: Fausto Sozzini
  • Stephan Schaede: Substitute: Conceptual historical studies on soteriology, Volume 126, Contributions to historical theology, Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148192-5 , p. 412.
  • Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer: Protestant religious refugees in Switzerland (1540–1580). In: Hartmut Laufhütte , Michael Titzmann (ed.): Heterodoxy in the early modern times (= early modern times. Vol. 117). De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-092869-3 , pp. 119-160.
  • Christoph Schmidt : Pilgrims, Popes and Prophets: A History of Religions from Eastern Europe, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-657-77265-0 , pp. 127-160: From West to East: The Anabaptists.
  • Kestutis Daugirdas: The Beginnings of Socinianism: Genesis and Penetration of the Historical-Ethical Model of Religion in the University Discourse of Evangelicals in Europe, Volume 240, Institute for European History Mainz, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-647-10142- 2

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luca Baschera: Sozzini, Fausto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Anja Hallacker: Apocalypse and Philology. Knowledge stories and world designs of the early modern period. (Berlin Medieval and Early Modern Research, Volume 2). 1st edition. 2007, p. 86 “It is clear that Sozzini cannot accept an independent Logos theology under these conditions. Rather, he tries to completely de-Platonize the prologue of the Gospel of John. "
  3. ↑ updated May 14, 2010
  4. ↑ [1] digital at google books
personal data
SURNAME Sozzini, Fausto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sozini, Fausto Paolo; Socini, Fausto; Socinius, Faustus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer and Unitarian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1604
Place of death Lusławice (Zakliczyn) , Poland