Meletii Smotryts′kyi

David Frick (University of California, Berkeley)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born c. 1577
Died 17 Dec 1633

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Belarus; Poland; Ukraine

Activities

Primary

Grammarian
Polemicist

Resources

Smotryts′kyi's Works

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Meletij Smotrycki—philologist/grammarian, paedagogue, polemicist, man of the upper Ruthenian Church hierarchy, first translator of large readings from the New Testament into Ruthenian—was a central figure in the Orthodox Reform that took place in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the sixteenth and the first half of of the seventeenth centuries in response to Roman Catholic, Uniate, and Protestant challenges.

Much remains obscured by the silence of the extant sources concerning the biography of Meletii Smotryts′kyi (Mialetsii Smatrytski; Melecjusz Smotrycki). What we can piece together comes from his own works, as well as from the responses of his opponents. He was born Maksym ca. 1577. His father was Herasym Smotryts′kyi, a founder of the Orthodox “Trilingual

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Citation: Frick, David. "Meletii Smotryts′kyi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 May 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13581, accessed 24 November 2024.]