Background
Szamosközy was born in present day Cluj-Napoca or Kolozsvár, now Romania to a Calvinist family.
anthropologist historian linguist
Szamosközy was born in present day Cluj-Napoca or Kolozsvár, now Romania to a Calvinist family.
He completed his studies at Heidelberg and Padova.
In 1593 he returned to Hungary and started to work at Alba Iulia, Gyulafehérvár in Hungary,Transylvania, now in Romania for the archive of the Transylvanian court. There he started collecting materials and writing his major work on Hungarian history. Stephen Bocskay nominated him as the official court historian.