:Eustachy Trepka

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Eustachy Trepka (born around 1510, died October 17, 1558{{cite encyclopedia | title=Trepka, eustachy | encyclopedia=The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church | publisher=Lutheran World Federation | editor=Bodensieck, Julius | year=1965 | volume=3 | location=Augsburg | pages=2413}}) was a Polish Lutheran theologian, pastor, and translator.

Trepka's family had its origins near Sieradz and Wielkopolska. According to some sources his family was nicknamed Nękanda{{cite web | url=http://www.spxvi.edu.pl/spxvi/korpus.php?menu=4&id=135 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221093235/http://www.spxvi.edu.pl/spxvi/korpus.php?menu=4&id=135 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-12-21 | title=Eustachy Trepka | publisher=Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademi Nauk | work=Slownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku }} with a coat of arms Topór.{{cite book | title=Historja literatury polskiej | url=https://archive.org/details/juljanabartoszew00bart | publisher=M. Glücksberg | author=Bartoszewicz, Julian | year=1861 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/juljanabartoszew00bart/page/195 195]}}

Eustachy attended the Lubrański Academy in Poznań where he was mostly likely a student of the Lutheran theologian Christoph Hegendorff. He was also probably a tutor to the Górka family, who were his protectors. In the 1540s, together with his sponsor Andrzej Górka, Trepka traveled to Wittemberg and met Martin Luther and his collaborator Philipp Melanchthon.{{cite news | url=http://www.parafiajaworze.pl/upload/File/inf52/czasy_ludzie_wydarzenia.pdf | title=Z życia i wiary. Czasy... Ludzie... Wydarzenia... | work=Informator Parafialny | date=2009-01-04 | agency=Parafia Jaworze | accessdate=September 18, 2012 | author=Król, Jozef | pages=12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203194558/http://www.parafiajaworze.pl/upload/File/inf52/czasy_ludzie_wydarzenia.pdf | archive-date=February 3, 2014 | url-status=dead }}

Subsequently, in 1546, he was invited by Duke Albert of Prussia to come to Królewiec (Königsberg, today Kaliningrad), the capital of Duchy of Prussia which at the time was a fief of Kingdom of Poland. There, Trepka was tasked by the Duke with carrying out translations of religious work from Latin into Polish, and he was employed in the print shop of Hans Daubmann. He also published with Daubmann's competitor, Aleksander Augezdecky.{{cite book | title=Historia Królewca: szkice z XIII-XX stulecia | publisher=Ksiaznia Polska | author=Jasiński, Janusz | authorlink=Janusz Jasiński | year=1994 | location=Olsztyn | pages=65–67 | isbn=83-85702-03-2}}

Works translated by Trepka include Mleko duchowne dla karmienia i wychowywania chrześcijańskich dziatek, 1556 ("Spiritual milk for nourishment and upbringing of Christian children"), by the Spanish theologian Juan de Valdés, and the Large Catechism of Johannes Brenz.

Trepka served as the Duke's adviser{{cite encyclopedia | title=Hans Daubmann und der Konigsberger Buchdruck im 16. Jahrhundert - Eine Profilskizze | encyclopedia=Königsberger Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte | publisher=Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar | author=Arb, Ingrid | editor=Walter, Axel | year=2004 | pages=108}} in regard to Polish affairs and in house translator. His son, Jerzy Trepka, was also employed by the Duke.{{cite book | title=Psalms and Potatoes: The congregations of the Polish-speaking Protestant Mazurians in East Prussia, Suwalki, Poland, and the United States | publisher=University of Michigan (PhD thesis) | author=Krueger, Karl | year=1992 | pages=85}}

Eustachy Trepka was an ideological opponent of the Polish Protestant evangelical reformer Jan Łaski and the Congregationists of Greater Poland.{{cite web | url=http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/abbrev.asp?abbrev=ABBR.CONG | title=Trepka, Eustachy | publisher=Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod | work=Christian Cyclopedia | accessdate=September 16, 2012 |editor1=Lueker, E. |editor2=Poellot, L. |editor3=Jackson, P. }}