Paul Csáji

* Nagyida, April 20, 1902 – † Miskolc, November 16, 1964 / Reformed pastor, archivist ; ; He graduated from high school in Rozsnyó, graduating in 1920. He studied reformed theology in Sárospatak between 1920 and 1924. He further trained in Halle and Bonn in 1929 and 1930. He was an assistant pastor from 1924, a pastor from 1928 in Szepsi, a religious education pastor from 1942 in Košice, and from July 15, 1945 to July 16, 1947, a deputy pastor in Szina. He came to Hungary as a result of the “population exchange”. Here he was first an assistant pastor in several places, then from May 1952 he was assigned to the Ráday Archives, where he was the archivist of the Duna Mellék church district from January 1, 1962 until his death. During his assistant pastorship in Budapest and in addition to his archival work, he also conducted church history research. Several of his works were published in print. His manuscript material is preserved in the Reformed scientific collection in Sárospatak. His most significant studies: The first official census of the Hungarian Reformed churches and preachers 1725–1729 (Church History, 1958), An attempt at hymnal revision in 1729 (Church History, 1958), Sámuel Horváth, publisher of the Second Helvetic Creed in 1743 (Church History, 1958), György Jessenius (Church History, 1959), The hymns of Pál Szabó Csider (Yearbook of the Ráday Collection, 1955).