Péter Bornemisza (1535-1584)

He was born in a wealthy bourgeois family in Pest, from where he was forced to flee in 1541. He lived in Várad, then in Kassa. By then he was a keen supporter of Protestantism. From 1556 he studied in Vienna, Venice and Wittenberg. Having returned home he supported Hungarian Lutheran printing-houses: he was the one who settled Gál Huszár to Kassa (1561), he helped Raphael Hoffhalter to flee from Vienna (1563). From1563 to 1569 he was János Balassi's court priest in Zólyom and Bálint Balassi's private teacher. In 1573 he founded a moving press with a Viennese set of letters, which functioned until the end of his life. He published his five-volume book of preaching continuously, then he edited a collection of songs of high literary importance (Songs in Three Orders, 1572). In the year of his death his huge, one-volume preaching book called Folioposuntila was published (1584).

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