Samuel Przypkowski [SEP] place of death
Samuel Przypkowski
Samuel Przypkowski (Przipcovius, Pripcovius) (1592–19 April 1670, Königsberg) was a Polish Socinian theologian, a leading figure in the Polish Brethren and an advocate of religious toleration. In "Dissertatio de pace et concordia ecclesiae", published in 1628 in Amsterdam, he called for mutual tolerance by Christians. He was also a poet in Latin and Polish.
Life.
He studied at the University of Leiden and Altdorf, returning to Poland in the 1630s. He engaged in controversy with the Jesuit Szymon
Samuel Przypkowski says, in the service of the grandduke himself). Between 1565 and 1568 he wrote the essay "Il Frastagliato Intronato". This portion of his life he regarded as wasted; till 1567 he gave some attention to legal duties, and wrote (1570) his treatise "De auctoritate s. scripturae".
In 1571 he was in Rome, probably with his patroness. He left Italy at the end of 1575, and after Isabella's death (strangled by her husband in 1576) and declined the overtures