Macovius Samuel

Macovius Samuel , (Polon. Makowski,) was a Doctor of Medicine, and doubtless the same person who is called in the Synodical Acts (A. D. 1633) "Doctor Bregensis," to free whom from the most wretched captivity, the Synod of Racow, in 1634, contributed a thousand florins. Some light is thrown upon this subject by what Lubieniecius relates, as having happened to the Church at Lublin, in the year 1627. "The grievous injury inflicted upon Samuel Macovius," says he, "is well known. Although a Doctor of Medicine, of great experience, and very eminent in his profession, and in other respects a man of irreproachable character; to whom the city was under great obligations, particularly during the time that the plague was raging, and who was taken under the protection of the King, and acquitted by the Royal Commissaries; yet he was tried before the Supreme Tribunal, imprisoned, and several times punished, and after being so often exposed to the fear of death, was liberated by the payment of a large sum, with difficulty, and much entreaty, the Unitarian Church relieving him in his affliction by a gift of a thousand pounds."

It is uncertain whether he was a brother of John Makowski, a Polish Noble, and Professor of Theology at Franeker, who wrote an attack upon the Catechism of Faust Socin, and over whose remains John Cocceius delivered a funeral oration, July 2nd, 1644, which was afterwards printed: but the identity of the surname renders the supposition not improbable.

(Vidend. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. I. p. 464. Lubieniecii Hist. Ref. Polon. L. iii. C. xiii. p.)