Elek Jordánszky

* Košice, 15 September 1765 – † Esztergom, 15 February 1840. bishop, church writer, supporter of science; ; studied in Košice and Bratislava, at the general seminary (Emericum). Ordained priest in 1789. He was a tutor in the family of Count Miklós Berényi in Alsóbodok, later archivist and secretary of the primate. From 1798 to 1805 he was a parish priest in Szőgyén. In 1805 he became a teacher at the Nagyszombat Lyceum, and from 1808 to 1813 he was deputy director of the Bratislava Academy. From 1816 to 1820 he was a canon of Esztergom, from 1820 to 1825 he was archdeacon of Sasvár, and from 1830 he was bishop of Esztergom. The Jordánszky Codex, the second largest Hungarian Bible translation, was named after him, and László Báthory was long credited as its author. Today, it is generally believed that this remarkable Hungarian language monument is the work of one of the Dominican monks from Margitsziget. The copy was created in 1516–1519 and is attributed to the same hand. Over the centuries, various parts were lost. Some of them were later discovered (the Jankovich fragment, the Csemez fragment), and these were then attached to the connected part found in 1782, after the liquidation of the Poor Clares monastery in Nagyszombat, and came into the possession of Mátyás Fába, the chapter clerk in Esztergom. Fába donated the codex to Jordánszky in 1820.