the first generation of Hungarian Erasmists

The Hungarian Erasmists had a group at the royal court before 1526. Hungarian humanist poets and writers writing in Latin drew Erasmus's attention to themselves successfully: Jacobus Piso, János Kassai Antonius (Erasmus's private doctor), Miklós Oláh and János Henckel corresponded with the master. Henckel - who was Queen Maria's confessor - managed to persuade Erasmus to write a conforming book for Queen Maria: Vidua Christiana, 1529 [The Christian Widow]. János Henckel supported Luther's ideas, he was considered a heretic, and that was the reason he was not allowed to follow the Queen to Germany.

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