Maciej Albin or Latin Matthias Albinus (fl.

Floruit

Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

 1570s) was a Polish Calvinist minister at Iwanowice Dworskie

Iwanowice Dworskie

Iwanowice Dworskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iwanowice, within Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Iwanowice and north of the regional capital Kraków....

 who became the first to administer adult baptism in Poland, and then openly Unitarian.

He differed from the Calvinists and many of the Arians at Pińczów

Pinczów

Pińczów is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 12,304 .-History:...

 in denying the pre-existence of Christ

Pre-existence of Christ

The pre-existence of Christ refers to the doctrine of the ontological or personal existence of Christ before his conception. One of the relevant Bible passages is where, in the Trinitarian view, Christ is identified with a pre-existent divine hypostasis called the Logos or Word...

. And at the Synod of Skrzynno

Synod of Skrzynno

The Synod of Skrzynno 24 June 1567 was a synod between the Arians and Socinians among the Antitrinitarian Polish Brethren.From 1550-1563 Calvinists and Arians had met together at the Synods of Pińczów, the final synod in 1563 marking the break between the Calvinist ecclesia maior and the ecclesia...

 in 1567 stood with Georg Schomann

Georg Schomann

Georg Schomann was a Socinian theologian.In his youth, was distinguished by a deep Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Krakow Academy and then at Wittenberg, where he was Lutheran...

, Gregory Pauli and Marcin Czechowic

Marcin Czechowic

Martin Czechowic was a Polish Socinian minister, theologian and writer.-Life:...

 among the Polish Brethren

Polish Brethren

The Polish Brethren were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658...

. Although the term Socinian  is anachronistic, he was counted among Socinian authors by Christopher Sandius

Christopher Sandius

Christopher Sandius Jr. was an Arian writer and publisher of Socinian works without himself being a Socinian....

.

Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson (hymnist)

Robert Robinson was a determined English Dissenter, an influential Baptist and scholar who made a life-long study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism. He was also author of the hymns "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee," the former of which...

's Ecclesiastical Researches (1792) incorrectly states that Albinus was a Trinitarian till the end of his life but this is contradicted by Bock

Friedrich Samuel Bock

Friedrich Samuel Bock was a German philosopher and theologian.In 1753 he was appointed first professor of Greek, then theology at the University of Königsberg, though he resigned both positions in 1770 due to the University's failure to pay a salary, plus the onerous duty that the professor of...

, Historia Antitrinitarianorum.