Person
Péter Pázmány
Hungarian Jesuit; noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman
Péter Pázmány, S.J. (also called de Panasz in some sources; October 14, 570 – 19, March 1637), is a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman.
He is an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary.
Pázmány's most important legacy is his creation of the Hungarian literary language.
As an orator he is dubbed "the Hungarian Cicero in the purple".
In 1867, a street in Vienna, the Pazmanitengasse, is named after him.