Biography of Péter Pázmány
Name: Péter Pázmány
Birth Date: October 4, 1570
Death Date: March 19, 1637
Place of Birth: Nagyvárad, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian
Gender: Male
Occupations: author
Péter Pázmány
The Hungarian prelate Péter Pázmány (1570-1637), one of the great figures of the Counter Reformation, restored Roman Catholicism to Hungary. A superb stylist, he has been hailed as the father of modern Hungarian prose.Péter Pázmány was born into a noble Protestant family at Nagyvárad on Oct. 4, 1570. Guided by his Roman Catholic stepmother, he became a convert at the age of 13. Pázmány attended the Jesuit college at Kolozsvár, entering the Jesuit novitiate at Cracow in 1587. He studied philosophy in Vienna and theology in Rome under Gabriel Vásquez and Robert Bellarmine. In 1598 Pázmány became professor of philosophy at the University of Graz. In 1601 he began a 2-year visit to Hungary, where he initiated his brilliant literary career with his Answer to Stephen Magyary, the first Catholic …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…ny was made a cardinal.Despite his esteem for the Hapsburgs, Pázmány fought against Austrian encroachments on Hungarian identity. He failed in an important diplomatic venture in Rome. During the Thirty Years War Pázmány unsuccessfully urged Pope Urban VIII to condemn the Franco-Swedish alliance and to join a league of Catholic princes against Gustavus ll and the German Protestants. A disappointed man, Pázmány severely criticized the Pope and the Roman Curia. In 1635 he published his last great literary work, Sermons for Sundays and Holydays. Pázmány died at Pozsony on March 19, 1637. Further Reading Imre Lukinich, A History of Hungary in Biographical Sketches (trans. 1937), has a study of Pázmány. Pázmány's career is discussed briefly in Denis Sinor, History of Hungary (1959), and Carlile Aylmer Macartney, Hungary: A Short History (1962).
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