Gáspár Heltai

Gáspár Heltai (Caspar Helth or of Heltau/Cisnădie ) (1490?-1574) was a Hungarian writer and printer of Saxon descent.

Gáspár Heltai’s Chronika az magyarok viselt dolgairól (1575; Chronicle of the Hungarians’ Past Deeds), was printed in Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca). This was the Hungarian version of Antonio Bonfini’s work, Rerum Hungaricum Decades (“Ten Volumes of Hungarian Matters”). His work marked the first buds of a secular literature in Hungary.

He was a great spirit of Hungarian Unitarian Reformation. He together with a group of scholars produced an almost complete translation of the New Testament in Hungarian.