Georg Schomann (Polish Jerzy Szoman) (Racibórz 1530 - Chmielnik 1591) was a Socinian (Unitarian) theologian.
In his youth, was distinguished by a deep Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Kraków Academy and then at Wittenberg, where he was Lutheran. He soon converted to Calvinism, and moved to Pià Âczów, where from 1558 to 1561 he taught at the local school and was a Protestant minister in churches in Pià Âczów and KsiÃ à ¼. He was one of the authors of the Polish Brest Bible (1563). In Pià Âczów he funded and founded a library, mainly the work of the Swiss reformers, for the sum of 40 ducats. Here, too, he married.
His interest in anabaptist doctrine, led him in 1569 to travel to Hutterite communities, and he was baptized in 1572 among the Polish Brethren and in 1573 started to operate as an Arian preacher in Kraków, then Lutosà Âawice 1586âÂÂ1588, and finally Chmielnik 1589âÂÂ1591.
Schomann presented radical religious and social views in polemical writings, and in many disputes, diets and synods, including a famous debate with the Jesuit Piotr Skarga by invitation at the house of salt mine owner Prospero Provana in Kraków. The debate played host to the leading Italian Antitrinitarian exiles, including Giorgio Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato and Giovanni Gentile. Schomann debated also with Faustus Socinus.
Schomann drew up the first Socinian catechism (1574) of the Polish Brethren. It was followed by that of Faustus Socinus himself.
Like another Polish Brethren writer Andrzej Wiszowaty he was cited by Voltaire