András Eőssi

András Eőssi (died ca. 1598-1602) of Szenterzsébet (Romanian Eliseni), in Harghita, was a Székely nobleman in Transylvania who founded the Szekler Sabbatarians sect.^[1][2][3] Eőssi came into contact with Matthias Vehe and after the death of Ferenc Dávid in 1579 set up the Sabbatarian branch of the Transylvanian Unitarians. He was an autodidact, his followers including Simon Péchi and the Unitarian Miklós Bogáthi Fazekas.^[4] The first major study on this group was published in Hungarian in 1899 by Samuel Kohn.^[5]

References

1. István Keul Early modern religious communities in East-Central Europe 2009 Page 131 "For a nobleman lived in Szenterzsébet by the name of András Eőssi, and this man — I say — read so long in the Bible until he retrieved from it the Sabbatarian religion, which he made many people believe by explaining the well- known ..."
2. Agnieszka Barszczewska – Lehel Peti - Integrating minorities: traditional communities and modernization Page 127 "In the middle of the 1590s he arrived to Gusteriţa (Szenterzsébet), where András Eőssi, the most important figure of the ... Besides András Eőssi and Simon Péchi, the educated members of other noble families (for example Petki, Orbán, ..."
3. Kevin Alan Brook - The Jews of Khazaria 2009 - Page 261 "The Sabbatarian movement began in the late sixteenth century when the Székely nobleman named Andreas Eőssi and his Transylvanian followers began to observe the Jewish Sabbath and the other commandments of the Torah."
4. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, A zsidóság története Erdélyben, 1623-1944 1995 "Szertartásaikat, szervezetüket a kiváló autodidakta theológus, Eőssi András kezdte kiépíteni, ő tekinthető a szombatosság ... Legkiválóbb vezetőjük Péchi Simon volt, Bogáti Fazakas volt iskolai tanítványa, Eőssi András fogadott fia, ..."
5. Heinrich Graetz, Miksa Szabolesi, Samuel Kohn A zsidók egyetemes története - 1908 "A község földesura, Eőssi András meghivta gyermekei mellé nevelőül. Az özvegységre jutott beteg ember rábizta nemcsak gyermekeit, hanem egész jószágát. Közben Eőssi gyermekei sorra elhaltak és ekkor a nagytehetségü, kellemes külsejü és ..."