Simon Péchi

Chancellor Simon Péchi (1575–1642) was a Hungarian Székely official, and wealthy supporter of Matthias Vehe and nobleman András Eőssi's Szekler Sabbatarians movement in Transylvania. The influence of Péchi's Sabbatarian prayer book contributed to the conversion of around twenty thousand Székelys to Sabbatarianism in the late sixteenth century. Samuel Kohn, Chief Rabbi of Budapest, and the first scholar to take an interest in the Sabbatarians among the Transylvanian unitarians, published a biography of Péchi as part of his studies in 1899.

Works

• Atyák mondásai — Pirqé ávot

• Louise Olga Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Imre Kertész and Holocaust literature 2005 Page 331 "Her translations from the Hebrew into Hungarian include Atyák mondásai—Pirqé ávot, a collection of previously unpublished rabbinical writings in the early seventeenth century by Simon Péchi and she has published articles on the works of ...