Ézsaiás Budai
Ézsaiás Budai (Pér, May 7, 1766-Debrecen, July 14, 1841) was a Hungarian Protestant theologian and philologue.
Life[]
His family was noble and his uncle, (1760-1802), was also a Protestant priest and the author of a scientific-historic lexicon published by his nephew after his death. Ézsaiás Budai studied at the , which became later the University of Debrecen. From 1792 to 1794, he followed classes with Christian Gottlob Heyne, Christoph Meiners, August Ludwig von Schlözer und Ludwig Timotheus Spittler. After a journey to the Netherlands and England and a short period as a philosophy professor at the University of Göttingen, he devoted himself to religious studies.
Works[]
- Commentatio de causis culturae tardius ad aquilonares quam ad australes Europae regiones propagatae (Göttingen 1794)
- God. Hasse Liber de causis stili latini (Debrecen 1799)
- Közönséges historia (Debrecen 1800)
- Régi tudós világ historiája (Debrecen 1802)
- Deák nyelv kezdete példákban (Debrecen 1804)
- Ratio institutiones (Debrecen 1807)
- Magyaroszág historiájav (Debrecen 1807)
- Régi római v. deák irók élete (Debrecen 1814)
- Propaedeumata Theologiae Christ (Debrecen 1817)
- Christ. Cellarii latinitatis probatae et exercitae liber memorialis. Cum interpretatione hung. etc (Debrecen 1831)
Sources[]
- Eintrag in Constantin von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Band 2, S. 192f., Wien 1857
Categories:
- 19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- Hungarian writers
- 1760 births
- 1841 deaths