Marcin Ruar

Martin Ruarus (* 1588-1590 ( brim ), † 1657 ( Straßzyn near Danzig ) was a sozinianischer theologian and scholar.

Ruarus was the son of a Lutheran pastor. In 1608 he enrolled at the University of Rostock and since 1611 he studied at the University of Altdorf law and philosophy, and later theology. Probably his teacher Ernst Soner it won for the antitrinitarianism. 1614 Ruarus traveled secretly to Raków and became a member of the Polish brothers, the Socinian church.

He was returned home tutor and took his charges travel through Europe, where he is a rich education, including knowledge of Arabic and Syriac language, appropriated, so a chair was offered to him during his stay in Cambridge, which he Socinian because of its views turned down. Instead, he went in 1620 after Raków and became head of the local school. Because it was too much effort soon, he went from 1622 to 1631 again with various Polish nobles on trips to Europe.

In 1631 he married and settled in Gdansk as a preacher of the Socinian church down. Since the Socinians in the city itself could not hold public meetings, they met outside the city. As Ruarus should be reported as a heretic in 1638, this was prevented by influential friends. 1643 appointed him king Władysław IV Vasa of Poland for consultants, in which office he was confirmed by John II Casimir. 1645 he participated in the Thorner part colloquy, where he met George Calixtus. In late 1657 he died impoverished in Gdansk. His writings, including a review of Fausto Sozzinis Rakower Catechism, published his sons after his death.