Péter Melius Juhász (1532 – 25 December 1572) was a Hungarian botanist, writer, theologist, and bishop of the Calvinist Reformed Church in Transylvania. He famously debated with Ferenc David in a series of synods resulting in the Brief Confession of Pastors at

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(1567), the Confession of Kassa (1568), and the Várad disputation (18 August 1568) - held at "Várad", modern

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), not

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in Hungary. The "sententia catholica," was followed by a new confession, the Confession of Várad (1568).

Mihály Balázs Mihály Balázs (born 1948) is a Hungarian Catholic historian and professor of religious history at the University of Szeged. He is widely regarded as an expert on the religious history of Hungarian-speaking Transylvania. Works * Mihály Balázs, E ...

''Early Transylvanian antitrinitarianism (1566-1571): from Servet to Palaeologus'' Baden-Baden, 1996 "Around the middle of 1568 Melius and his friends published their theses for the Varad dispute on August , 1568. The opus is no longer extant; but we have the reply by David and his followers, the often mentioned Refutatio ..."

Gáspár Károli Gáspár is a Hungarian masculine given name, equivalent to English Jasper, and may refer to: *Gáspár Bekes (1520–1579), Hungarian nobleman *Gáspár Boldizsár ( fl. 1990s), Hungarian sprint canoer *Gáspár Borbás (1884–1976), Hungarian f ...

names Melius as one of the sources for his translation of the Hungarian

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 ...

. His herbal (Herbarium), published in 1578, was the first botanical and medicinal work in Hungarian language.

Works

*Herbarivm. Az faknac fvveknec nevekröl, termésetekröl, és haßnairól, Magyar nyelwre, és ez rendre hoßta az Doctoroc Kőnyueiből az Horhi Melius Peter. Nyomtattot Coloſuárat Heltai Gaſpárné Műhellyébé, 1. 5. 78. Eßtendőben.

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1532 births 1572 deaths Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed theologians Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed clergy Translators of the Bible into Hungarian Hungarian botanists Eastern Hungarian Kingdom 16th-century botanists {{Hungary-bio-stub