Kalman Kallay

* Bratislava, October 11, 1890 – † Debrecen, July 14, 1959 / Reformed pastor, Semitic philologist, ; university professor ; ; Studied at the Bratislava Lutheran, the Pontifical Reformed Theological Academy, the universities of Utrecht and Budapest. Assistant pastor in 1914. From 1915, he was a catechist in Bucharest, from 1916, a camp chaplain, from 1917, a pastor in Kórógy in Slavonia. In 1919, he returned to Bucharest, where he became deacon of the Old Romanian Reformed diocese. From 1921, he was a deputy professor of theology at the Pontifical Reformed Theological Academy, from 1923, a pastor in Debrecen. training institute for ministers, from 1928 professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Debrecen, rector of the university in 1941–1942. From 1950 professor at the Theological Academy of Debrecen. He actively participated in the revision of the Károli Bible translation. He wrote the Biblical Lexicon with István Hamar and Sándor Czeglédy (1931). ; ; His main works: ; The Conception of the Afterlife in the Old Testament, 1926, ; The First Three Kings of Israel in the Qur'an, 1934, ; The Defense of Scientific and Faithful Theology, 1938.