Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski was an Arian theologian, pastor of the church of the Polish Brethren.
Background
Christopher Crellius was the middle generation of three Socinian theologians: he was son of Johannes Crellius, and father of Samuel Crellius-Spinowski. Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski was educated first where he was born, at the Racovian Academy, then following the forced closure of the Racovian Academy in 1639, at the University of Leiden.
Career
In 1669, Krzysztof Senior moved as minister and teacher to Kosinowo. He completed the editing and printing of works of his father in Amsterdam. During his trips abroad to the Netherlands and England he sought material assistance for exiled Arians.
He died on the way home from Kosinowo to Kluczbork.
Christoph Junior. later studied, like his father, at Leiden, where he graduated in medicine 6 July 1682, with a thesis on bladder stones. He went on to become a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in London on 2 April 1683.