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GUZMICS, IZIDOR (1786-1839)

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GUZMICS, IZIDOR (1786-1839) , Hungarian theologian, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:April 1786 at Vamos-Csalad, in the See also:county of See also:Sopron. At Sopron (Oedenburg) he was instructed in the See also:art of See also:poetry by See also:Paul Horvath. In See also:October 1805 he entered the See also:Benedictine See also:order, but See also:left it in See also:August of the following See also:year, only again to assume the monastic garb on the loth of See also:November 1806. At the monastery of Pannonhegy he applied himself to the study of See also:Greek under Farkas Toth and in 1812 he was sent to Pesth to study See also:theology. Here he read the best See also:German and Hungarian authors, and took See also:part in the editorship of the Nemzeti (See also:National) Plutarkus, and in the See also:translation of Johann Hiibner's See also:Lexicon. On obtaining the degree of See also:doctor of divinity in 1816, he returned to Pannonhegy, where he devoted himself to dogmatic theology and literature, and contributed largely to Hungarian See also:periodicals. The most important of his theological See also:works are: A kath. anyaszentegyhaznak hitbeli tanitasa (The Doctrinal Teaching of the See also:Holy See also:Catholic See also:Church), and A keresztenyeknek valldsbeli egyesiilesokrol (On Religious Unity among Christians), both published at Pesth in 1822; also a Latin See also:treatise entitled Theologia Christiana fundamentalis et theologia dogmatics (4 vols., See also:Gyor, 1828-1829). His translation of See also:Theocritus in hexameters was published in 1824. His versions of the See also:Oedipus of See also:Sophocles and of the Iphigenia of See also:Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian See also:Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member. In 1832 he was appointed See also:abbot of the wealthy Benedictine See also:house at Bakonybel, a See also:village in the county of Veszprem. There he built an See also:asylum for 150 See also:children, and founded a school of See also:harmony and singing. He died on the 1st of See also:September 1839.

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