Johannes Crellius

John Crell (ius ), also: John Krell Jan Crell (* July 26, 1590 in Helmitsheim, † June 11, 1633 in Raków ), was a Polish- German sozinianischer theologian and educator.

Life

Born the son of a preacher, Crellius initially enjoyed the training by his father. At the age of ten he attended school in Nuremberg, then moved to Stollberg and Marienberg in Meissen. In 1606 he enrolled at the University of Altdorf and heard, among others with Ernst Soner. After his studies he became inspector in Altdorf and was suspected of the Reformed doctrine of Calvinism to represent. Although he refuted the allegations, he saw in his home no more reason to stay and went in November 1612 after Rakow.

In Rakow he found by the nobility promoted the appropriate environment to its sozinianische conviction to express. 1616 the rector of the local school, he was assigned, which reached during his ten -year tenure as a teacher at the facility, to blossom. In 1622 the offer was presented to him to become a preacher of the local community. This offer he accepted and wrote at that time until his death in theological exegetical work.

Crellius was one of the leading theologians of the Polish Brothers and the author of Ad Librum Hugonis Grotii quem de satisfactione Christ ( 1623), De Deo et eius attributis (1630 ) and De Deo uno Patre libri duo ( 1631). Since 1613 he worked at the Academy of Raków which he was Rector from 1616 to 1621.

Influence

His works were printed in 1665 in Amsterdam under the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant. Voltaire and John Locke were influenced by his writings. Later, Thomas Belsham (1750-1829) from Crell extensively quoted.