Stanislav Orikhovsky on religious tolerance

Abstract

Stanislav Orikhovsky (1513-1565) - one of the most prominent Latin-speaking Ukrainian-Polish humanists of the first half of the 16th century. For a long time he was known almost exclusively as a Polish figure. We now have every reason to include him in our culture, above all because he was a conscious Ukrainian - he invariably added the term "Ukrainian" (Ruthenus, Roxolanus, Russus) to his last name. this is frankly stated "(Ruthenum me esse et glorior et libenter profiteor). In Western Europe it was called "Ukrainian Demosthenes" and "modern Cicero." His teachers were famous figures of the time: the German humanist Melanchthon and the reformer Martin Luther - in the latter's house he even lived during his studies. Many prominent people of that time in Italy and Poland also had the honor of communicating with him.