Pierre Statorius
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Pierre Statorius was a French grammarian and theologian, who settled 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...

, becoming rector of a the Calvinist Academy in Pińczów at the invitation of Francesco Lismanino
Francesco Lismanino
Francesco Lismanino , Italian-Polish Franciscan.Lismanino came as a child to Kraków, but returned as a teenager to Italy to study, where he entered the Franciscan order. In 1533 he returned to the Italianate court of Bona Sforza in Kraków, where he was later cantor, and confessor to the queen...

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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
Tonneville
Tonneville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France....

, Seine-Maritime, not Thionville
Thionville
Thionville , is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.-Demographics:...

, Metz.

He is known in Poland as Piotr Stoiński Sr., (also Stojeński), to distinguish from his son, Piotr Stoiński Jr.
Piotr Stoiński Jr.
Piotr Stoiński Jr. was a Polish Socinian Unitarian writer.Piotr was the son of Pierre Statorius the French Unitarian grammarian who emigrated to Poland wrote the first grammar of Polish...

 (1565–1605) co-author of the Racovian Catechism
Racovian Catechism
The Racovian Catechism 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, where the Racovian Academy and printing press was founded by Jakub Sienieński in...

 and teacher at the Racovian Academy
Racovian Academy
The Racovian Academy was a school of the Socinian Polish Brethren operating in Raków, Kielce County, Poland 1602-1638, and publisher of the Racovian Catechism in 1605....

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Works

He was one of the team which produced the Brest Bible
Brest Bible
The Brest Bible was the first comprehensive Polish language Protestant Bible translation, published in 1563 in Brest and dedicated to King Sigismund II Augustus....

 1558-1563.

He wrote the first grammar of Polish, Polonicae grammatices institutio (1568).

External links

  • :ru:s:ЭСБЕ/Стоенский, Петр
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