István Szamosközy

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István Szamosközy,

In 1593 he returned to Transylvania and started to work at Gyulafehérvár for the archive of the Transylvanian court. There he started collecting materials and writing his major work on Hungarian history.

Stephen Bocskai nominated him as the official court historian.

Works

• In Padova he published a Collection of Roman inscriptions in Dacia
• he published also a numismatic treatise

His unfinished Hungarian history was never published but parts are extant in many manuscript copies.

• Hebdomanes (Sevenths)
• Pentates (Fifths)[1]
• History of the year 1594
• Analecta lapidum vetustorum et nonnullarum in Dacia antiquitatum[2]

References

Sources

• Kulcsár Péter, ed. (1977). Humanist Historians (Hungarian: Humanista Történetírók). Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó.

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