Gyenis, András SJ
Gyenis András SJ (1901-1965) was a Hungarian Jesuit monk, teacher, and historian. He was born in Tamási. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1918. He graduated in Kalocsa, then he studied philosophy in Szeged and theology in Innsbruck. He was ordained as a priest in 1931. He was a teacher in Pécs and Szeged. He founded the Archive of the Jesuit Order Hungary in 1934 and wrote several studies as the official historian of the order about the Jesuits. From 1935, he was a teacher at the Jesuit Academy in Budapest. In 1947, he moved to Buda, then to Szeged. He was deported to Jászberény in 1950. After his release, he had to work at a pipe factory in Budapest, where his health declined. He became a sacristan and tried to subsist by doing translations. He died in Budapest in 1965.
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