person
Joachim Szostak
Szostak
also: Иоаким Шостак, Catholic abbé Joachim Szostak
An invented Catholic clergyman supposedly buried beside the narrator's ancestor Ambrosius in the old Kingdom of Poland, complete with a fictitious memoir on climate and drink -- one of the letter's many fabricated authorities.
Reading notes
- A Letter to a Learned Neighbor §3 Catholic abbé Joachim Szostak
An invented Catholic clergyman supposedly buried beside the narrator's ancestor Ambrosius in the old Kingdom of Poland, complete with a fictitious memoir on climate and drink -- one of the letter's many fabricated authorities.