György Enyedi, in Latin Georgius Eniedinus (1555 – 28 Nov. 1597) was a Hungarian Unitarian bishop, moderator of the John Sigismund Unitarian Academy in Kolozsvár and writer known as the "Unitarian Plato".Mihály Balázs, Gizella Keserű György Enyedi and Central European Unitarianism in the 16–17th centuries Balassi Kiadó, 2000
Enyedi's major work was the posthumously-published anti-Trinitarian Explicationes (1598) which circulated widely in Europe. The first Catholic refutation of the Explicationes was Ambrosio Peñalosa's Opus egregium (1635).Antal Molnár Sur la genèse d'une polémique catholique contre Enyedi According to Marshall (1994), Locke started his reading of Unitarian writers with Enyedi in 1679,John Marshall John Locke: resistance, religion and responsibility 1994 Page 337Mester Béla The Connection between the Unitarian Thought and Early Modern Political Philosophy 2002 before more extensive exploration of Socinian works 1685-86.
Works A short biography and bibliography is included in Christof Sand's Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum (1684).Page 93-94 "M S. GEORGIUS ENIEDINUS Húngaras," Explicationes locorum Veteris & Novi Testamenti, ex quibus trinitatis dogma stabiliri solet., 2nd ed. 1598, 3rd edition probably Groningen, 1670. De Divintate Christi A collection of his sermons, that remained unprinted until the twenty-first century, though copied in various surviving manuscripts in Transylvania.Lovas Borbála, 'Másolási stratégiák Enyedi György prédikációinak hagyományozódásában' ('Copying Strategies in the Textual Tradition of György Enyedi's Sermons') Studia Litteraria 2013/3-4, 79-94.
Unknown or mis-attributed works Explicatio locorum Catechesis Racoviensis - Commentary on the Racovian Catechism, though Christopher Sand (1684) notes "in truth Enyedi died before the Racovian Catechism ... came to light", and concludes that it is a preface to an earlier catechism of Gregorio Pauli and Fausto Sozzini. Preface for the Racovian New Testament - though Sand notes again that the two known Racovian translations, "of Smalcius and Crell (sic) into Polish", and Stegman into German, both appeared after Enyedi's death.
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External links English translation of Concio XCIV, a sermon from 1594 by György Enyedi English translation of Concio CXV, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi English translation of Concio CXCII, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi English translation of Concio CXCIII, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi English translation of Concio CXCIV, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi