Bernat Benyák

* Komárom, December 6, 1745 –  † Selmecbánya, March 1, 1829 / Piarist priest, teacher ; ; He was a teacher in many places, the director of the Székesfehérvár gymnasium. He was the first to teach philosophy in Hungarian at the Pest Lyceum and wrote his philosophical works in Hungarian. He wanted to organize a separate society for the cultivation of the Hungarian language. He wrote philosophical and educational works, Hungarian and French grammar, several school dramas, poems, pieces of music, etc. In his memoir Theoria scholarum, he demands that all subjects be taught in Hungarian in the schools of Hungary. The majority of his works remained in manuscript. He was the first to urge state teacher training and the transformation of the entire country's education into Hungarian under a unified state management. He lived in Selmecbánya in the last part of his life. ; ; His main works: ; Selected Articles from the Whole of Logic and Educational Physics, 1777; The Amusements of a Clever Mind, 1783; Grammatica Hungarica, 1816.