Martin Szepsi Csombor
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* Szepsi, 1595 – † Varannó, 1623 c. / traveler, travel writer, Reformed preacher, teacher ; ; He completed his schooling in Késmárk. In 1611 he traveled to Transylvania, studied in Nagybánya for two years, and from 1613 he was a teacher in Telkibánya. Between 1616 and 1619 he traveled almost all of Northern Europe: today's Czech Republic, Poland, Silesia, Prussia, Denmark and Western Europe, while attending university lectures in Danzig, Strasbourg and London. He returned home at the end of 1619, first as a school principal in Košice, then as a pastor in Varannó, and was tutored by Ferenc Nyáry. He fell victim to the plague. His travel book published in Košice is one of the first Hungarian-language travelogues. In his work, he took a stand for national freedom, civilization and progress. His work, which remained in manuscript, was: His Journey 1620. ; ; His main work: ; Europica varietas, or a short description of the various things he saw and heard in his wanderings in Poland, Mazury, Prus, Denmark, Frisia… Britain, and the Sea…, ; 1620, Udvari Schola, 1623.