Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-08-01 / 8. szám
12 FRATERNITY HISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH By IMRE REVESZ, Th. D. Translated by GEORGE A. F. KNIGHT PREFACE The history of Hungarian Protestantism, and in it that of the Reformed Church, is very little known in English speaking countries. It is almost like a lacuna in the general text of the story of Evangelical Christianity. Due to the alleged difficulty of the Magyar language, few Western church historians ever tried to study and examine the primary sources and documents of Protestantism in Hungary. This fact explains the scarcity of other than Hungarian language publications in this field. One could easily hold the English language books of this nature in one hand. The first complete Hungarian Protestant Church History ever published in English was printed in 1854. It was written by the Rev. George Bauhoffer, Lutheran Pastor of Buda, and translated into English by the Rev. J. Craig, D. D. Its exact title is: “History of the Protestant Church in Hungary, from the beginning of the Reformation to 1850; with special reference to Transylvania.” The preface was written by J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, D. D., the famous Geneva church historian. The book is a mine of information. The second work is “A Short Account of the Hungarian Church”, by Prof. Louis Csiky, published in 1877, and the third is the “History of the Reformed Church of Hungary”, by Prof. Francis Balogh, one time professor of Church History at the Theological Seminary at Debrecen.
