Jan Seklucjan

New Testament, 1551

Jan Seklucjan (also John Seclucianus , John Seclutianus * to 1510 / 15 , † 1578 ) was a Polish Lutheran preacher , translator and publisher . He had the first Lutheran texts and the first New Testament printed in Polish .

Life

Seklutian may have come from Siekluki near Radom or a place of the same name in Greater Poland . In 1536 he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained the degree of baccalaureus .

In 1538 Johannes Seclutian was the royal scribe in Poznan . As a priest he was charged with Lutheran sermons by Bishop Sebastian Branicki of Posen in 1543. He fled to the Protestant Duchy of Prussia in Königsberg .

There he developed a rich publishing activity and printed the first Lutheran confessions, biblical texts and hymns in Polish. He also worked as a Lutheran preacher for the Polish community at the Church of St. Nikolai ( Steindammer Church ), which became a gathering place for Polish and Lithuanian emigrants.

Fonts

Seklutian worked as a publisher and editor in Königsberg, and he also translated some texts himself. In total, over 15 writings have survived today.

1545 the first Polish translation of Martin Luther's Small Catechism ,
1547 Luther's Great Catechism
1547 a Polish hymn book with 35 songs, including 8 by Luther.
In 1550 a Polish post office followed .

1551–53 he published the first New Testament in Polish, translated from the original Greek text by the Lutheran linguist Stanisław Murzynowski .

The writer Mikołaj Rej was one of the authors he published .

literature

German

Stanisław Urbańczyk (ed.): Old Polish orthographies of the 16th century: Stanisław Zaborowski, Jan Seklucjan, Stanisław Murzynowski, Jan Januszowski . Böhlau, Cologne - Vienna 1983.
Old Prussian biography , sv
K. v. Miaskowski: Jan Seklucjan . In: Historical monthly sheets for Posen 12, pp. 148–154.
Walter Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Göttingen 1968.

Polish

Janusz Małłek: Seklucjan (Seclucianus, Sekluczian) (ok. 1510 / 1515-1578) , in: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . Vol. 36, Warszawa, Kraków 1995-1996, pp. 182-186.

Lithuanian

Vaidotas Rimša: Jano Maleckio ir Jano Sekluciano polemika dėl katekizmo kanoninio vertimo . Lietuvių Kalbos Instituto Leidykla, Vilnius 2001.

Web links

Jan Seklucjan Encyclopedia Warmia

Individual evidence

^ Peter Hauptmann Church in the East: Studies on Eastern European Church History and Church Studies. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1991 ISBN 3-525-56390-6 , p. 43
↑ His prints in Königsberg are listed in Vanessa Bock: The beginnings of Polish book printing. In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Königsberg book and library history. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2004. pp. 145ff.
↑ Daiva Narbutienè: Catechism of Jan Seklucjan in Lithuania Website of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, accessed March 7, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Seklucjan, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seclucianus, Johannes; Seclutianus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish Protestant theologian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1510
DATE OF DEATH	1578

[1] Peter Hauptmann Church in the East: Studies on Eastern European Church History and Church Studies. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1991 ISBN 3-525-56390-6 , p. 43

[2] His prints in Königsberg are listed in Vanessa Bock: The beginnings of Polish book printing. In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Königsberg book and library history. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2004. pp. 145ff.

[3] Daiva Narbutienè: Catechism of Jan Seklucjan in Lithuania Website of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, accessed March 7, 2014.