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Hillar, Marian
Professor
M.D., Ph.D., University Medical School at Gdansk, Poland

Office: 203P Science Center
Telephone:713-313-7990
Email: hillar_mx@tsu.edu

Marian Hillar, M.D., Ph.D., philosopher, theologian, and scientist, took his degrees from the University Medical School of Danzig (equivalent to Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities) and studied at the Jagiellonian University and at Sorbonne. He did research and taught in Europe at the University Medical School of Danzig and Università degli studi di Camerino, and in the USA at Baylor College of Medicine and Ponce School of Medicine. He is currently professor of philosophy and biochemistry and the director of the Center for Philosophy and Socinian Studies (http://www.socinian.org).

He is the author of The Case of Michael Servetus (1511-1553) - The Turning Point in the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience (Edwin Mellen Press, 1997), Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist. and Martyr (University Press of America: Lanham, New York, Oxford, 2002) and translator (together with Christopher A. Hoffman) of The Restoration of Christianity by Michael Servetus. In addition he wrote two books in biochemistry: Bioenergetics, (NIH, TSU, 1975), Energetics and Kinetic Mechanisms of Enzyme Function, (Whittier Publications, 1994) and authored about 130 papers and abstracts on various subjects in biomedical sciences and philosophy and religious studies. His specialties in biomedical sciences are biochemical regulations, enzyme kinetics, cancer studies, and control in genes expression. His other specialties are modern and classical lan guages and history of philosophy and religions. He is a world expert on the development and ideas of the Socinian movement in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the precursor of the Enlightenment and American democracy. He is member of numerous scholarly organizations and is listed in "Who's Who In Theology and Science." His diverse fields of interests are outlined in the link below.

Complete Publication List (pdf)

Most Recent Book Publications

Marian Hillar, Robert D. Finch, editors "Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism," Vol. 16 (1) Spring-Summer, pp. 96. American Humanist Association, Washington, DC, 2008.

Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “The Restoration of Christianity. An English Translation of Christianismi restitutio, 1553, by Michael Servetus (1511-1553). Translated by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,” (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).


Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “Treatise on Faith and Justice of Christ’s Kingdom by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,”(Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

Marian Hillar, and Christopher A. Hoffman, translators: “Treatise Concerning the Supernatural Regeneration and the Kingdom of the Antichrist by Michael Servetus. Selected and Translated from Christianismi restitutio by Christopher A. Hoffman and Marian Hillar,” (Lewiston, NY; Queenston, Ont., Canada; Lampeter, Wales, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press,
2008).

 

 

 

 

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