Stanisław Murzynowski

Stanisław Murzynowski (born 1527/8 in the village of Suszyce, died 1553 in Königsberg (Królewiec, today Kaliningrad)) was a Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.

[1] Murzynowski studied at a gymnasium in Królewiec, where he learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew,[2] and then in Wittenberg, where he met Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon.

[3] In 1549 he came back to Królewiec, the capital of Duchy of Prussia which at the time was a secular fief of the Kingdom of Poland.

[3] In that year he met Jan Łaski, the Polish Protestant evangelical reformer, who was visiting Królewiec at the time.

[1] Murzynowski was the author of the first complete translation of the New Testament into the Polish language, published in 1553 in Królewiec, although the theologian Jan Seklucjan assumed authorship at the time.