Péter Pázmány

Hungarian Jesuit; noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman

1570 CE to 1637 CE

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.

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