In the history of thought, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski as Polish renaissance scholar (1503-1572).
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski was born at Wolbórz in 1503. His recorded nationality is Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He studied at Jagiellonian University.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
The recorded fields of work are science, humanism and theology.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski died in 1572, aged 69. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: science, humanism and theology
