Schlichtingius Wolfgang

Sclichtingius Wolfgang, (Germ. Schlichtig, or Schlichting,) of Bukowiec, was the father of the celebrated Jonas Schlichtingius. The family originally came from Switzerland ; and, on its first settlement in Poland, the name was written Schlichtig auf Bauchwitz, from Bauchwitz, the German name of the family estate, which, in Polish, is called Bukowiec. Sigismund Schlichtingius, of Starpel, the cousin of Wolfgang Schlichtingius of Bukowiec, attached himself to the Evangelico-Lutheran party; and in 1592 published "An Explanation of the Apostles' Creed," which he addressed to the Church at Smigel, and to which that Church published a reply in the year following. This reply was drawn up by Matthew Radecius, and was preceded by two Prefaces, one of which was written by Radecius himself, and the other by Wolfgang Schlichtingius, and addressed principally to his cousin Sigismund, and other relations. Lauterbach states, that Wolfgang Schlichtingius had four sons, John, Jonas, Elias and Vespasian ; and that Jonas was the only one, who imbibed the religious principles of his father. We learn from Bock, that, after the Polish exile, this family settled in Prussia; and that, as late as his own time, (1776,) a member of it,—Jonas Christopher Schlichtingius,—exercised the ministerial office among the Socinians, who remained on the confines of Poland.