Borosnyai, Sigismund

Borosnyai, Sigismund, a theologian of Hungary, who studied in Holland where, in 1736, he was made doctor of theology by the university of Leyden, was in 1738 appoiinted professor of theology at the Reformed Gymnasium of Enyeden in Transylvania, where he died in 1779. He is the author of Disp. de Holocausto Jephtce ad Jud. XI (Franeker, 1735): — De Testramentis ad Pias Causas (Utrecht, eod.): — Disp. I-VI de Symboli Apostolici Constitutione (ibid. 1737): — De Illustribus Veterum Scriptorumn Testimoniis de Christi Doctrina (ibid. eod.): — De Sancto Fine Conditi Ufriusque Testanenti (1737): — De Libris Refor. Eccles. Symbolicis (Enyeden, 1745). See Jocher, Allgemeines GelehrtenrLexikon, s.v.; Horanyi. Memor. Hungar.; Benko, Transylvania, ii, 464. (B. P.)