György Káldy
Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator
About György Káldy
Lived 1573 – 1634 (aged 61). György Káldy was a Hungarian translator, bible translator and bible translations.
György Káldy (1573–1634) was a Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator.
Káldi was born in Nagyszombat, Kingdom of Hungary on February 4, 1573. He studied theology at the University of Vienna. In Rome, in 1598 he entered the Jesuit order. In 1625, he founded the College of Pozsony (Pressburg, today's Bratislava), and served as its rector until his death.
He devoted nearly half of his life to the translation of the Bible. He published the first Catholic translation of the Bible in Vienna, 1626. His version was based partly on the unpublished manuscripts of István Szántó, partly on the Vulgate. The printing of his translation in 1626 was supported by the Calvinist prince Gabriel Bethlen.
Káldi died in Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava, Slovakia) Kingdom of Hungary on October 30, 1634.
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Hungarian Jesuit and Bible translator
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György Káldy was born on 4 February 1573 in Trnava.
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György Káldy died on 30 October 1634 in Bratislava.
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