János Sylvester

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János Sylvester

Hungarian translator

Also known as: Erdosi

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Hungarian literature
Renaissance and Reformation
Benedek Komjáti, Gábor Pesti, and János Sylvester, all of whom were disciples of the humanist Erasmus, translated parts of the Bible with philological accuracy. Pesti made a very readable translation of Aesop’s fables and published a Latin–Hungarian dictionary. Sylvester published the first Hungarian grammar and, to show the adaptability of…
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Benedek Komjáti, Gábor Pesti, and János Sylvester, all of whom were disciples of the humanist Erasmus, translated parts of the Bible with philological accuracy. Pesti made a very readable translation of Aesop’s fables and published a Latin–Hungarian dictionary. Sylvester published the first Hungarian grammar and, to show the adaptability of…
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biblical literature
Hungarian versions
János Sylvester (Erdősi) produced the first New Testament made from the Greek (Sárvár, 1541). The Turkish occupation of much of Hungary and the measures of the Counter-Reformation arrested further printing of the vernacular Bible, except in the semi-independent principality of Transylvania. The first complete Hungarian…
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János Sylvester (Erdősi) produced the first New Testament made from the Greek (Sárvár, 1541). The Turkish occupation of much of Hungary and the measures of the Counter-Reformation arrested further printing of the vernacular Bible, except in the semi-independent principality of Transylvania. The first complete Hungarian…
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