Ézsaiás Budai (

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, 7 May 1766 -

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, 14 July 1841) was a Hungarian Protestant theologian and philologue.

Life

His family was noble and his uncle, Budai Ferenc (1760-1802), was also a Protestant priest and the author of a scientific-historic lexicon published by his nephew after his death. Ézsaiás Budai studied at the Reformed University, which became later the

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. From 1792 to 1794, he followed classes with

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und Ludwig Timotheus Spittler. After a journey to the

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and

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and a short period as a philosophy professor at the

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, he devoted himself to religious studies.

Works

*''Commentatio de causis culturae tardius ad aquilonares quam ad australes Europae regiones propagatae'' (Göttingen, 1794) *''God. Hasse Liber de causis stili latini'' (Debrecen 1799) *''Közönséges historia'' (Debrecen 1800) *''Régi tudós világ historiája'' (Debrecen 1802) *''Deák nyelv kezdete példákban'' (Debrecen 1804) *''Ratio institutiones'' (Debrecen 1807) *''Magyaroszág historiájav'' (Debrecen 1807) *''Régi római v. deák irók élete'' (Debrecen 1814) *''Propaedeumata Theologiae Christ'' (Debrecen 1817) *''Christ. Cellarii latinitatis probatae et exercitae liber memorialis. Cum interpretatione hung. etc'' (Debrecen 1831)

Sources

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, Band 2, S. 192f., Wien 1857 {{DEFAULTSORT:Budai, Ezsaias 19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed theologians Hungarian writers 1760 births 1841 deaths