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László Báthory
László Báthory de Császár () ( – 27 February 1456) was a Pauline monk and the first translator of the Bible into Hungarian. Background Báthory (also Báthori or Bátori) was born around 1420 in Nyírcsászári. Little is known of his early life. It is possible he belonged to the aristocratic Báthory family. He completed his university studies in Italy and France. After returning to Hungary, he took part in John Hunyadi's campaign against the Ottomans. He grew disillusioned with the court of Ladislaus V and entered monastic life with the Pauline order. He then dedicated his life to the theology, translating the Bible into Hungarian, and writing hagiographies of the lives of many saints. Seeking solitude to focus on his work, he left the monastery and retreated to a small cave at the top of (Great Linden Hill). He lived as a hermit there from 1437 to 1457. During this time he translated the Bible from Latin. Eventually he returned to the Monastery of St Lawrence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
