János Baranyai Decsi

In 1587, he travelled abroad accompanying the young Hungarian aristocrat, Ferenc Bánffy de Losoncz.

The following year, he moved to Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureş) where he began working as a teacher, which he held until his death.

He travelled a great deal, to Gyulafehérvár (Alba Iulia), to Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca), and once even to Strasbourg to be granted a higher degree.

Baranyai was close to the official documents of the Transylvanian court, he mentions as informators Márton Pethe, Demeter Naprágyi, Ferenc Dersffy, Sebestyén Thököly, László Hommonai, Miklós Czobor.

Baranyi Decsi János magyar historiája (1592–1598) Budapest 1981 Helikon translated from Latin by Kulcsár Péter[2]