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Symon Budny (Belarusian: Сымон Будны, Polish: Szymon Budny, Russian: Симеон Будный) (c.1530, Budne – 13 January 1593, Wiszniów) was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian.
His works
He published the Old Testament and New Testament with commentaries and notes in Polish (1570,1574,1589), which was the first approach of the world literature to the radical rationalist critique of the Gospels. He supported the limited educated monarchy concept of the state (with Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski), which would enable the development of the commons. He was one of the first ideologists of the developing of the Belarusian culture in its native language, the notable influencer of the development of the Belarusian national consciety.
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