Symon Budny

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Symon Budny (Belarusian: Сымон Будны, Polish: Szymon Budny, Russian: Симеон Будный) (c.1530 – 1593) was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian. Published in polish language the Old Testament and New Testament with commentaries and notes (1570,1574,1589), which was the first approach of the world literature to the radical rationalist critique of the Gospels. Supported the limited, «educated» monarchy concept of the state (with Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski), which would enable the development of the commons. One of the first ideologists of the developing of the Belarusian culture in the native language, the notable influencer of the development of the Belarusian national consciety.

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