Gregory Hidi

* Satu Mare, 14 February 1674 – † Nagyszombat, 6 March 1705 / doctor of philosophy and theology, Jesuit priest and teacher; ; He entered the Jesuit order in the autumn of 1689, studied philosophy and theology at the University of Vienna, and then became a doctor. He then taught philosophy in Nagyszombat. When the Kuruc armies occupied Nagyszombat in 1704, he was the nurse of the plague patients. He contracted the disease himself and died at the age of 31. In 1701, he wrote the topography of Hungary before the conquest. The continuation of the work was written by his fellow order member, Sámuel Timon (Tornyos) (Celebriorum Hungariae urbium et oppidorum topographia – Topography of the famous towns and market towns of Hungary, 1702). ; ; His main works: ; Philosophi Christiani effigies, e duplici prototypo symbolico et personali in purpuratis saeculi nostri et patriae philosophis expressa, nunc variis eloquentiae coloribus adumbrata, 1699, Celebriorum Hungariae Urbium Celebriora. Historico-Geographice DesCrIpta &amp, CoMprehensa, ; Pars is excellent. Pannoniam Veteram complexa..., 1701.