Martin Szentiványi (born at Szentiván, present-day Liptovský Ján, 20 October 1633 and died at Nagyszombat, present-day Trnava, 5 March 1708) was a polymathic Hungarian Jesuit writer and theologian.
[1] His 4000 page work, titled Miscellanea, brings papers from all fields of science.
For seven years he filled the office of the chancellor of the University of Trnava, and in addition was for nine successive years governor of the Pázmáneum in Vienna and of the academy at Trnava.
Martin Szentiványi was lecturer at University of Trnava in 1668 – 1705.
[3] His numerous writings appeared in Hungarian, Latin, German, and Slovak, and some were translated into French.