Joins, a famous Socianist, born in 1590, at a village near Nuremberg. In 1612 he went into Poland, and became lecturer on divinity and Unitarian minister at Cracow, where he died in 1632. Crellius wrote, 1. Ethica Aristotelica, ad Sacrarum Literarum normam emendata, 1650, 4to; 2. De Deo et attributis ejus, Cracow, 1630; 3. De uno Deo patre, libri duo, in quibus multa etiam de Filii et Spiritus Sancti natura, 1631, 8vo; 4. Declaratio sententia de causis mortis Christi, 1637, 8vo; 5. Vividice pro Religiosis libertate, 1637, 8vo; 6. De Spiritu Sancto qui fidibus datur, 1650, 8vo; 7. Catacheches ecclesiastic Poloniarum reformata et reducta primum per Faustum Socinum et alios, nunc a J. Crellio, etc. recognita, Irenopolis, 1655, 1680, 1684, 8vo; and other works, including a German translation of the New Testament, and Commentaries on some of the Epistles.