Péter Pázmány: Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary
Péter Pázmány (1570-1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian history. Born a Protestant, Pázmány converted to Catholicism while a student and then became a Jesuit. Despite the Society’s requirement of vows from its members that excluded the possibility of holding...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 526-544 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBK Europe (East) KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Counter-Reformation
B Hungary B confessional identity B Biography B Pázmány B Primate B Jesuits B University of Nagyszombat (Trnava) B Habsburg |
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| Summary: | Péter Pázmány (1570-1636) was one of the most significant personalities in early modern Hungarian history. Born a Protestant, Pázmány converted to Catholicism while a student and then became a Jesuit. Despite the Society’s requirement of vows from its members that excluded the possibility of holding high ecclesiastical office, Pázmány became provost of Turóc (a small church benefice in northern Hungary) and shortly thereafter archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary. His tenure was marked by ecclesiastical reform and multiple educational projects of which the most notable was the founding of a university in Nagyszombat (Trnava). He was also the author of influential devotional and polemical works in the Hungarian vernacular. Pázmány’s legacy as a preserver and promoter of a “civilization” and a creed both Christian and European and of a culture distinctly Hungarian endures, as does his reputation as a master and shaper of Hungarian prose. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00704002 |