Stegmann Laurence

Stegmann Laurence, brother of Joachim and Christopher Stegmann, was the last Rector of the College at Racow ; and was also Minister of the German Church in that town, at the time of the expulsion of the Socinians, in 1638. After that event he lay concealed in Poland, under the name of Tribander, (from , the Greek for Steg, a Path, and , a Man,) but did not altogether discontinue his ministerial duties. It is probable, however, that he went, for a short time, into Transylvania; for Ruarus, in a letter addressed to the Senate of Clausenburg, and dated June 4^th, 1638, says, that the uterine brother of Stegmann had then gone into Transylvania. (Cent. ii. No. 45.) In the year 1640, Laurence Stegmann was appointed Minister of the Congregation at Meseritz; and the Acts of the Synod state, that in 1641 he had gone abroad. On his return, he again took charge of the Congregation at Meseritz, but was not at all acceptable to them as a Minister ; and in 1655 they brought a formal accusation against him. He appears to have been the individual, named Stegmann,who visited the March of Brandenburg, in 1632 or 1633. This visit was undertaken by the advice and recommendation of a Polish Noble, of the name of Sack, to whom the Synod wrote a letter of thanks in 1633, for having supplied Stegmann with three hundred florins, to defray the expenses of his journey. He published nothing himself; but a letter of his, addressed to Martin Ruarus, April 7^th, 1637, relating to a Confession of Faith which he was intending to publish, is inserted in the Second Century of Ruarus's Epistles (No. 44). It is certain, that this Confession of Faith never saw the light ; and not improbable that the manuscript was destroyed, as Sandius makes no mention of it. That writer, however, notices

1. A Letter to Dobeslaiis Cieklinski, written April 19^th, Vol. in. P

1642, with an Elegy to the same on the Death of his Wife. MS.

2. Another Letter to John Woienski, M. D., written March 18^th, 1642. MS.

3. A Poem addressed to the youthful Noble, Stanislaus Lubieniecius. MS.; and

4. Other writings.

(Vidend. Sandii B. A. p. 134. Bock, Hist. Ant . T. I. pp. 963, 964. Anon. Epist. de Vit. And. Wissowatii, p. 230.)

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