Gáspár Heltai
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| Gáspár Heltai | |
|---|---|
| Born | Caspar Helth c. 1510[1] Nagydisznód, Kingdom of Hungary (now Cisnădie, Romania) |
| Died | c. 1574 Kolozsvár, Principality of Transylvania (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) |
| Era | Reformation |
| School | 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 Transylvanian Saxon and Lutheran family.[2] His surname may derive from the German name of his birthplace, Heltau (now Cisnădie, Romania).[citation needed] In 1543, he studied at Wittenberg University (now Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) under Philip Melanchthon. Returning to Transylvania the next year, he became a clergyman in the Calvinist and then Lutheran denominations. In 1569, he converted to Unitarianism and defended it in a debate with representatives of the Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) Church in 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 paper mill and the first brewery in the town. He is considered the first religious reformer in Kolozsvár,[4] and a great spirit of Hungarian Unitarian[5] 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
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- ↑ Georg Daniel Teutsch, Helth, Kaspar,Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 11. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pag. 711–713.
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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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