LUBIENIETSKI (Stanislaus)

, a Polish gentleman, born at Cracow, in 1623, and educated with great care by his father. He was learned in astronomy, and became a celebrated Socinian minister. He took great pains to obtain a toleration from the German princes for his Socinian brethren. His endeavours however were all in vain; being himself persecuted by the Lutheran ministers, and banished from place to place; till at length he was banished out of the world, with his two daughters, by poison, in 1675, his wife narrowly escaping.

We have, of his writing, A History of the Reformation in Poland; and a Treatise on Comets, intitled Theatrum Cometicum, printed at Amsterdam in 2 volumes folio; which is a most elaborate work, containing a minute historical account of every single comet that had been seen or recorded.