Egyháztörténeti Szemle 18. (2017)
2017 / 2. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Kiss Lajos: The Way of Gáspár Mágocsy’s Guardianship and the Advancement of the Reformed Church in the Territory of a Lutheran Follower, Castellan János Alaghy - Csorba Dávid: Turn in the Life of a Cantor in Debrecen: Story of István Diószegi K.
Summaries in English The Way of Gáspár Mágocsy’s Guardianship and the Advancement of the Reformated Church in the Territory of a Lutherani- an Follower, Castellan János Alaghy Kiss, Lajos During the Hungarian civil war and the Ottoman millitary aggression in the middle of the 1550’s, the fighting between Hungarian nobles for territory was usual. The Calvin follower Gáspár Mágocsy began his carrier as a soldier in Békés County and Zaránd County. Later he became the captain of Gyula. After the Turkish occupation of Gyula, Mágocsy on the side of Ferdinand (Habsburg) I., was granted titles in the North-Eastern part of the Hungarian Kingdom. He formed a political alliance with János Alaghy and after 1557 with Gábor Perényi too. During the campaigns against the Transylvanian rulers Queen Isabella, Prince János Szapolyai and their vassals the relationship between Mágocsy and Alaghy got stronger. In 1560’s the Calvin follower preachers in Abaúj County and Zemplén County made their own Calvinistic confession. The Evangelistic landlords like Alaghy and Perényi in these years started to persecute the leaders of the Calvin follower preachers. They tried to keep the Evangelistic faith on their own lands. In 1567 Perényi and Alaghy died. Most of the land of Perényi was inherited by two families, the Báthory and the Calvin follower Dobó. Alaghy named Mágocsy as the executor of his last will. Meanwhile Alaghy’s widow married with a lowborn noble lieutenant. In these years Gáspár Mágocsy was a member of King Maximilian’s council. He got the children’s guardianship. In the former Alaghy territory the Reformed Church got stronger and the persecution was over. Turn in the Life of a Cantor in Debrecen: Story of István Diószegi K. Csorba, Dávid István Diószegi K. (1635^1698) is a well-known Calvinist Preacher in 17th century. He did his doctorate in Holland, worked as teacher and as preacher in a great village in county of Bihar (Diószeg), and until his death he was elected for a while to a bishop in the District of Transtisza. Bevor he achieved such a carreer, he had working as a cantor in Debrecen. It happened when he had finished his last exam in College of Debrecen, and had been working since 2 years. He was that time no pupil, but somehow he should get a job to survive. I found recently an item about this period of his lifetime that makes us clear, how could it be happen. There is a declaration in municipal proceedings of Debrecen that City Council would see him through an amount of 300 taler in order to travelling abroad for advanced studies in Universities of Holland. From that source turned out the real name of this person: his cognomen wasn’t Kis (it means small) but Konta (it means short). In another manuscript is written about the title of his book which has been disappearing for a long time. Finally I foreshowed preface of his famous book Proportioned Talent (1679), that describes turns of life Diószegi Konta’s.
