István Szamosközy

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Stefan Zamosius (Szamosközy) (1570–1612) was a Hungarian humanist and historian.

Life

Szamosközy was born in present day Cluj-Napoca, Romania to a Calvinist family. He completed his studies at Heidelberg and Padova. In 1593 he returned to Hungary and started to work Alba Iulia, Romania for the archive of the Transylvanian court. There he started collecting materials and writing his major work on Hungarian history.

Stephen Bocskay nominated him as the official court historian.

Works

In Padova he published a Collection of Roman inscriptions in Dacia
he published also a numismatic treatise

His unfinished Hungarian history was never published but parts are extant in many manuscript copies. Farkas Bethlen saved longer parts in his Transylvanian history. He designed his work based on the example of Antonio Bonfini's Decades (Tenths). Sándor Szilágyi published Szamosközy's works in four volumes in Szamosközy történeti maradványai, Budapest 1876–1880.

Hebdomanes (Sevenths)
Pentates (Fifths)
History of the year 1594

Literature

Szamosközy, I. (1963). History of Transylvania (Hungarian: Erdely Törtenéte). Budapest.
Kulcsár Péter (ed.), ed. (1977). Humanist Historians (Hungarian: Humanista Történetírók). Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó.

Persondata
Name	Szamosközy, István
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian humanist and historian
Date of birth	1570
Place of birth	Kolozsvar
Date of death	1612
Place of death

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