The first Bible translations into Hungarian date from the 15-16th centuries, as do the first

Hussite Bible The Hussite Bible ( hu, Huszita Biblia; sometimes also "The Bible of the Franciscans") is the oldest known Bible translations into Hungarian, Hungarian, as well as general Uralic languages, Uralic Bible translation, dated to the 1420s–1430s. His ...

and the

Vizsoly Bible The Vizsoly Bible, also called Károli Bible was the first Bible printed in the Hungarian language. It was translated in the 16th century by pastor Gáspár Károli and fellow Calvinists and was printed in 1590 by Bálint Mantskovit. A copy is kept ...

.Hungarian Bible translations, biblia.hu (Hungarian)
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Translations

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'' is the first Hungarian translation of the Bible, dates back to 1416. It was translated by

Tamás Pécsi Tamás () is a Hungarian, masculine given name. It is a Hungarian equivalent of the name Thomas. The given name may refer to: * Tamás Bognár (born 1978), Hungarian footballer * Tamás Gábor (1932–2007), Hungarian Olympic champion épée f ...

and

Bálint Újlaki Bálint or Balint is a Hungarian surname derived from Valentinushttps://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=balint. Surname * Alice Balint (born Alice Székely-Kovács) (1898–1939), Hungarian psychoanalyst * András Bálint (born 1943), Hungari ...

, two

Hussite The Hussites ( cs, Husité or ''Kališníci''; "Chalice People") were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus, who became the best known representative of the Bohemian Reformation. The Hussit ...

Hungarian priests, who studied in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

between 1399 and 1411. * ''Újszövetség'' (New Testament) is the first remained full New Testament in Hungarian translated by

János Sylvester János Sylvester sometimes known as János Erdősi (1504–1552) was a 16th-century Hungarian figure of the Reformation, and also a poet and grammarian, who was the first to translate the New Testament into Hungarian in 1541. Life He was bo ...

in 1541. It was also the first book printed in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

, at the domain of the Tamás Nádasdy in

Sárvár Sárvár (german: Kotenburg or ; la, Bassiana; sl, Mala Sela) is a town in Vas County, Hungary. Sárvár lies on the banks of the River Rába at Kemeneshát. The population is nearly 16,000. The town has become a tourist centre of internatio ...

. * ''

'' is the first remained complete version in Hungarian, translated by

Gáspár Károli Gáspár is a Hungarian masculine given name, equivalent to English Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics ...

Calvinist Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

pastor in 1590. times It is named after the village of

Vizsoly Vizsoly is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northea ...

and was printed in 700-800 copy originally, gained wide popularity and occasionally used even today as the "classic" translation (similarly to the

KJV The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of K ...

in English). It was revised several times, the 1908 edition being widely adopted.Pázkozdy, Ladislaus. 1952. "The New Revision of the Hungarian Bible". ''The Bible Translator'' 3.1: pp. 1-7. * ''Káldi Bible'' was the first full

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

version in Hungarian, translated by György Káldy in 1626 and printed in

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. It was revised several times, most recently in 1997. *''Szent István Társulati Biblia'' (

Saint Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...

Society Bible): Catholic Modern Hungarian translations, szentiras.hu (Hungarian)
/ref> (1973) *Bible of the ''Magyar Bibliatársulat'' (Hungarian Bible Society): Protestant (1975) *Bible of the ''Szent Jeromos Bibliatársulat'': (

Saint Jerome Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...

Bible Society): Catholic and based on Káldi's translation and the

Nova Vulgata The ''Nova Vulgata'' (complete title: ''Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio'', ; abr. ''NV''), also called the Neo-Vulgate, is the official Classical Latin translation of the original-language texts of the Bible published by the Holy See. It ...

(1997) * Hungarian version of the

New World Translation The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a translation of the Bible published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; it is used and distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. The New Testament portion was released first, in 1950, ...

Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved in ...

''A Szentírás Új világ fordítása'' (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, Hungarian), Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, 2003 (2003)

Comparison

External links

Hungarian Bible translations online (Protestant and Catholic)

''Káldi Bible'' online

János Sylvester's ''Újszövetség'' online (PDF)
*Several Bible translations from the Old and Middle Hungarian period are available in th
Old Hungarian Corpus

References

{{reflist Hungarian Hungarian literature History of Christianity in Hungary