Albert Szenczi Molnar

* 1574. August 30. Szenc † 1639. January 17. Kolozsvár / Linguist, philosopher, psalmist, church writer, translator. ; ; His grandfather was a soldier of King Matthias, he came from the Székely Land to the county of Bratislava, where he became a miller, as was his father. He studied in Szenc from 1584, in Győr from 1586, in Gönc from 1587, and in Debrecen from 1588. In 1590 he was a tutor in Košice. He studied in Wittenberg from 1590, in Heidelberg from 1592, in Strasbourg from 1593 to 1596, and in Heidelberg from 1597 to 1599. Then he stayed in Szenc until 1600 and traveled around the Highlands. He studied in Herborn from 1600. In 1601 he was a corrector in Frankfurt, in 1602 a tutor in Amberg. In 1603 he began writing his Latin-Hungarian dictionary in Altdorf. In 1604 he stayed in Nuremberg to take care of the printing of his dictionary. In Prague he personally handed over the work recommended to King Rudolf to the ruler, where he also met Kepler. From 1605 he lived in Altdorf, from 1607 in Marburg, and from 160 in Oppenheim as a protégé of Prince Maurice of Hesse. From 1612 he was a court priest in Rohonc to Count Ferenc Batthyány, the captain-general of Transdanubia. In 1614 he traveled to Transylvania. He did not accept the teaching position offered by Prince Gábor Bethlen, and in 1615 he returned to Germany and became an assistant teacher in Amberg. From 1615 he was a cantor and schoolmaster in Oppenheim, from 1619 he lived in Heidelberg, from 1622 in Hanau. In 1624 he returned home to Košice, where Gábor Bethlen took care of his maintenance, and thus he pursued exclusively scientific and writing activities. From 1626 until his death he lived in Kolozsvár. ; He was a purposeful scholar who wanted to use his entire life with his work. With his Latin dictionary, which was in use with revisions until the middle of the 19th century, he opened the way for the Hungarian intelligentsia towards European scholarship. With his Hungarian grammar in Latin, he was the first after János Sylvester to introduce the peculiarities of the Hungarian language to Europe. He presented the Reformed Church with the psalms, the revised Károlyi Bible, the translation of Calvin's Institutes, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the collection of sermons by Scultetus. His influence on the development of the Hungarian literary language and Hungarian poetry was epoch-making. ; ; Web documents: ; ; Hungarian Patent Office (Source: Our anniversaries 1999. MTESZ, Hungarian biographical lexicon, MEK)