Lajos Zsarnay

* Zsarnó, January 1, 1802 – † Pest, June 13, 1866 / Reformed superintendent, church writer, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1858) ; ; He began his elementary school studies in his native village, then continued in Szepsi. As a student of the Ref. College in Sárospatak, he graduated from high school, philosophy, law and theology from 1811. In 1824–1826 he studied in Levski, where he also mastered German and French. In Sárospatak, he was a public teacher of the rhetoric department (1827), then a regular teacher of Christian ethics and theological sciences, and a priest of the college. He studied in Göttingen and Switzerland (1829–1831). After returning home, he was again a teacher, district chief notary, and superintendent. He lived in Sárospatak between 1831 and 1860, and was a preacher during the Bratislava Diet from 1832 to 1834. In 1860, he was elected bishop of Miskolc. He published his eulogies and also wrote textbooks. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member on December 15, 1858. In the last years of his life, he suffered from liver disease and dropsy. He went to Karlsbad for medical treatment, but died in Pest on the way. ; ; His main works: ; Keresztyén öökstudománya I-II., 1836, 1854, ; Paptan I-II., 1847-1857, ; Keresztyén ehgyztörténet rövd summája, 1852, ; Apologetics, 1857, ; Greek–Hungarian dictionary, 1857, ; Biblical Introduction, 1861.