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Izsák Czabán
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Nagyszeben - Harmanstadt - Sibiu, Lutheran Theological Academy
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Izsák Czabán (Zabanius) professor of theology, Lutheran pastor, philosophical author, college professor. Name variaties: Zabanius, Isaacus; Izák Czaban; Izsák Zabanius. He came from a pastor's family of the county Nyitra. Born 5. July 1632, in Brogya, county Bars. He studied in Sopron and Wittemberg, where he got to know János Bayer, his later colleague as teacher.
Following the Wittenberg example, he organized discussions on metaphysics and theology in Breznóbánya.
In 1661 he became deputy director, then director of the school. He is professor of the Lutheran College between 1667-1670. He formulates a more and more sharp critique on Aristotle therefore he got into contradiction with his colleague Illés Ladiver, as well as with the Jesuits. It was better for him to leave for Transylvania, Nagyszeben. Between 1676-1687 he is professor of theology and philosophy at the Lutheran College.
The greatest tragedy of his life befell him when he was 70. His son played a significant political role in the political life of Nagyszeben. As government official in charge of Szeben, he was involved into a traitor's lawsuit and had been beheaded in 1703. The grey-haired father himself accompanied him to the place of execution. He died in Nagyszeben, 1707.
His writings:
- Exercitation physica de intellectu Wittembergae, 1658
Existentia atomorum, ab injuris 24 argumentorum Wittembergae, 1667
Synopsis controversiarum metphysicarum Leutschovieac, 1669
Dissertation philosophica H. n. 1670
Source:
László Mátrai: Old Hungarian Philopsophers, XV-XVII. Budapest, 1961
Jolán M. Zemplén: The History of Hungarian Physics till 1711, Budapest, 1961
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