Gáspár Heltai (German: Caspar Helth1) (1490?-1574) was a Hungarian writer and printer23 of Saxon descent.
Gáspár Heltai’s Chronika az magyarok viselt dolgairól (1575; English: Chronicle of the Hungarians’ Past Deeds), was printed in Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca)4. This was the Hungarian version of Antonio Bonfini’s work, Rerum Hungaricum Decades (“Ten Volumes of Hungarian Matters”)4. His work marked the first buds of a secular literature in Hungary5.
He was a great spirit of Hungarian Unitarian2 Reformation6. He together with a group of scholars produced an almost complete translation1 of the New Testament in Hungarian7.
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