Gáspár Heltai
Gáspár Heltai | |
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| Born | Caspar Helth c. 1510 Lutheran Unitarianism |
Gáspár Heltai (c. 1510–1574) was a Protestant writer and printer from Transylvania who produced many books in Hungarian. He was also the father of the sister-in-law of Ferenc Dávid.
Career
Heltai was born Caspar Helth to a
Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia, Romania).[3]
From 1550 he worked as a printer in partnership with György Hoffgreff in
Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). The press functioned under Heltai's name after 1552, and continued to work after his death thanks to his widow.[3]
Heltai founded a public bath, a
Reformation.[6] Together with a group of scholars Heltai produced an almost complete translation[2] of the New Testament into Hungarian.[7] His work marked the first buds of a secular literature in Hungary.[8]
Bonfini translation
Heltai's most voluminous work is his reworking and translation of Antonio Bonfini's Rerum Hungaricum Decades ("Ten Volumes of Hungarian Matters"), which Heltai published in 1575 as Chronica az magyaroknak dolgairól ("Chronicle of the Hungarians’ Past Deeds").[9] The work was printed in Kolozsvár.[9]
References
- ISBN 0674426509.
- ^ ISBN 0-521-29016-3. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^ ISBN 0674426509.
- ^ Georg Daniel Teutsch, Helth, Kaspar,Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 11. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pag. 711–713.
- ^ Kelemen, Miklós (2000). "Short History of the Unitarian Church". Unitarian Church of Hungary. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ^ "The forerunners of the Hungarian Bible translation". Hungarian Bible Society. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ISBN 0-521-66736-4. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ^ a b "Antonio Bonfini". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
Relevant literature
- Forgács-Drahota, Erzsébet (2000) Sprichwörter in den Werken von Gáspár Heltai. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 45 (3-4). pp. 337–357. ISSN 1216-9803
External links
- Works by Gáspár Heltai at Post-Reformation Digital Library
- The text of the New Testament translation of Heltai in its original orthographic form is available and searchable in the Old Hungarian Corpus.
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