András Eőssi (died ca. 1598-1602) of Szenterzsébet (Romanian Eliseni), in

Harghita Harghita County (, and , ) is a county () in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc. Demographics 2002 census In 2002, Harghita County had a population of 326,222 and a population density of ...

, was a Székely nobleman in Transylvania who founded the

Szekler Sabbatarians The Szekler Sabbatarians (in Transylvanian Saxon: (Siebenbürgen) Sambatianer; in German: Siebenbürgische Sabbatianer; in Hungarian: Szombatosok, zombatosok, sabbatariusok, zsidózók, Şomrei Sabat) were a religious group in Transylvania and Hu ...

sect. Eőssi came into contact with

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, after the death of

Ferenc Dávid Ferenc Dávid (also rendered as ''Francis David'' or ''Francis Davidis''; born as Franz David Hertel, – 15 November 1579) was a preacher and theologian from Transylvania, the founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, and the leading f ...

in 1579, set up the Sabbatarian branch of the Transylvanian Unitarians. He was an autodidact, with followers including

Simon Péchi Chancellor Simon Péchi (c. 1570/1575–1642) was a Hungarian Székely official, and wealthy supporter of Matthias Vehe and nobleman András Eőssi's Szekler Sabbatarians movement in Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvani ...

and the Unitarian

Miklós Bogáthi Fazekas Miklós Bogáthi Fazekas (; 4 December 1548, in Torda – 1592 in Kolozsvár) was a Transylvanian Unitarian and Sabbatarian. He had been a teacher in Torda before the 1579 death of Ferenc Dávid. After he associated with the Szekler Sabbatarians w ...

. The first major study on this group was published in Hungarian in 1899 by

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 ...

.Heinrich Graetz, Miksa Szabolesi, Samuel Kohn '' A zsidók egyetemes története'' - 1908 "A község földesura, Eőssi András meghivta gyermekei mellé nevelőül. Az özvegységre jutott beteg ember rábizta nemcsak gyermekeit, hanem egész jószágát. Közben Eőssi gyermekei sorra elhaltak és ekkor a nagytehetségü, kellemes külsejü és ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eossi, Andras Szekler Sabbatarians Year of death uncertain 16th-century births