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Szabó, András:
Gloomy Beginnings. Some New Aspects to the Early Years of Gáspár Károlyi’s Life and Career

 

 

Gáspár Károlyi, the greatest Hungarian Bible-translator was a modest and moderate man – very far from the ‘self-fashioning’ style and behaviour of Alber Szenci Molnár who often spoke about himself and liked to be depicted, even on the frontispiece of his translation of Calvin’s Institutes. Consequently, to unveil his early years, his schooling and his intellectual affinities is not an easy and simple matter for one dealing with his personality and oeuvre. By Szenci Molnár he is mentioned as a ‘godly old man’, but we have to count with the 16th-century ‘grades’ of human life: senectus, (from 49 on), gravitas (until 70) and finally the aetas senilis. Not only the exact data of his life, but the original form of his family name is unsure, and the facts of the years of his education in Kronstadt (Braşov, Brassó) and at the University of Wittenberg are equally ‘gloomy’. Consequently, a very meticulous research method is needed – full of cautious steps of micro-philology – if we want to learn more about throughout the preparatory period of his life, before he started the gigantic work.

 

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