István Szamosközy
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Stefan Zamosius (Szamosközy) (1570–1612) was a Hungarian humanist and historian.
Life
Szamosközy was born in present-day Cluj-Napoca or Kolozsvár, now Romania to a Calvinist family. He completed his studies at Heidelberg and Padova. In 1593 he returned to Hungary and started to work at Alba Iulia, Gyulafehérvár in Hungary, Transylvania, now in Romania for the archive of the Transylvanian court. There he started collecting materials and writing his major work on Hungarian history.
Stephen Bocskay 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. Farkas Bethlen saved longer parts in his Transylvanian history. He designed his work based on the example of Antonio Bonfini's Decades (Tenths). Sándor Szilágyi published Szamosközy's works in four volumes in Szamosközy történeti maradványai, Budapest 1876–1880.
- Hebdomanes (Sevenths)
- Pentates (Fifths)[1]
- History of the year 1594
Literature
- Szamosközy, I. (1963). History of Transylvania (Hungarian: Erdely Törtenéte). Budapest.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [2] - Kulcsár Péter, ed. (1977). Humanist Historians (Hungarian: Humanista Történetírók). Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó.
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