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Völkel taught at the Racovian Academy and is often credited with a hand in the Racovian Catechism of 1605 along with Hieronim Moskorzowski, Piotr Stoiński the younger (Polish-born son of Pierre Statorius Senior), and Valentin Schmalz.
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Johannes Volkel
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Certainly he had a hand in the German translation of 1608. Völkel was one of several Socinians who corresponded with Grotius. Völkel"s major work was the legacy of the thought of Fausto Sozzini and the first generation of the Racovian academy in, "Of True Religion".
This was edited posthumously by January Crell:
Five editions were published between 1630 and 1642, being influential on John Locke and others was the first major systematic presentation of Socinian teaching published at the Racovian Academy, and widely exported around Europe, and earned many responses.
Among them the Prodromus of the Calvinist encyclopedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1641), and Samuel Desmarets"s negatively annotated anti-edition "The Socinian Hydra expunged!" (1651):
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