Hieronim Malecki
Hieronim Malecki (also Hieronymus Maeletius or Meletius) (born 1527, most likely in Kraków, died 1583 or 1584 in Ełk) was a Polish Lutheran pastor and theologian, as well as a translator, publisher, writer[1] and creator of literary Polish.
Hieronim Malecki was the son of Jan Malecki (sometimes referred to as "Jan Sandecki" or "Jan Sandecki-Malecki"), who was a printer of Polish language Lutheran religious literature in Królewiec (Königsberg, now Kaliningrad) in Ducal Prussia, then a fief of Kingdom of Poland. Hieronim studied in Kraków at the Jagiellonian University and then at the University of Königsberg.[1]
He worked as a teacher at a Polish school in Ełk and as a translator for the starosta of Ełk. In 1563 he was hired as the resident translator of Polish in the printing house of Hans Daubmann in Królewiec.[1] Malecki's translations include Martin Luther's "House Postil" (Postylla domowa, to yest: Kazania na Ewangelie niedzielne y przednieysze święta, 1574, Królewiec), as well as Luther's Small Catechism (Catechismus maly: dla pospolitych plebanow y kaźnodzieiow, 1615, Królewiec)[2] He also published works by his father, Jan, including Libellus de sacrificiis et idolatria Borussorum, Livonum... ("Treatise on the sacrifices and idolatry in Prussia and Livonia", 1563, Królewiec), originally a letter to the rector of University of Königsberg, Georg Sabinus, which Hieronim also published in a German-language version.[3]
In his translations into Polish, Hieronim, following his father, relied heavily on Czech, and even argued that Czech and Polish were a single language.[4] This practice had origins in an argument between Hieronim's father and another Polish translator in Królewiec, Jan Seklucjan.[5]
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