Chancellor Simon Péchi (1575–1642) was a Hungarian Székely official, and wealthy supporter of

Matthias Vehe Matthias Vehe known as Glirius (c.1545-1590) was a German Protestant religious radical, who converted to a form of Judaism and anti-trinitarianism, rejecting the ''New Testament'' as revelation. The identity of Vehe and the writer Glirius, who pub ...

and nobleman András Eőssi's Szekler Sabbatarians movement in

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...

. The influence of Péchi's Sabbatarian prayer book contributed to the conversion of around twenty thousand Székelys to Sabbatarianism in the late sixteenth century.

Samuel Kohn Samuel Kohn (1841–1920) was a Hungarian rabbi in Budapest from 1866 to 1905, time he was the Chief Rabbi of Budapest. He is remembered today as the author of ''A szombatosok, történetök, dogmatikájok és irodalmok'' ("The Sabbatarians: a com ...

, Chief Rabbi of Budapest, and the first scholar to take an interest in the Sabbatarians among the Transylvanian unitarians, published a biography of Péchi as part of his studies in 1899.

Works

* Atyák mondásai — Pirqé ávotLouise Olga Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek ''Imre Kertész and Holocaust literature'' 2005 Page 331 "Her translations from the Hebrew into Hungarian include Atyák mondásai—Pirqé ávot, a collection of previously unpublished rabbinical writings in the early seventeenth century by Simon Péchi and she has published articles on the works of ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pechi, Simon 1575 births 1642 deaths Szekler Sabbatarians Chancellors of Transylvania People from Pécs