Gáspár Károli was a Hungarian Calvinist pastor.

Károli started his school in Nagykároly and finished in Brassó

Brassó

Brassó may refer to:* Brassó, the Hungarian name for Braşov, Romania* Brassó County, a county of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1876 to 1920 with the above city as county seat...

. In 1556 he went to the Wittenberg Academy. In 1566 he ordered the Synod of Gönc.
He translated the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 to Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 in 1586 with supports of Sigismund Rákóczi

Sigismund Rákóczi

Sigismund Rákóczi was born into the noble Hungarian Rákóczi family. He briefly reigned as Prince of Transylvania from 1607 to 1608.Rákóczi was born into the lower nobility but, by various means - including a profitable marriage - managed to rise into the ranks of the aristocracy.When Stephen...

. The translation is called the Bible of Vizsoly

Vizsoly Bible

The Vizsoly Bible, also called Károli Bible was the first Bible printed in the Hungarian language. It was translated in the 16th century by pastor Gáspár Károli and fellow Calvinists and was printed in 1590 by Bálint Mantskovit...

, after the town where it was first published in 1590. It was the first Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 translation of both the Old

Old Testament

The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

 and New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

. He is the most known and famous Hungarian Calvinist.