BA'JITS, Minium, (properly, De Bay), one of the most distinguished theologians of the Catholic church in the 16th c., was b. in 1513 at Melun. He studied at Louvain, and became professor of theology there in 1550. He was present at the council of Trout in 1563, and also in 1564. He was the founder of a system of theology, based directly on the Bible and the writings of the Fathers, and setting aside the scholastic method. He had studied much the writings of St. Augustine, and thereforeconfined himself closely • vithin the circle of ideas held by this father of the church, whose doctrines of the entire inability of the human will to do good, and the absence of merit iu all good works, B. defended against the Jesuits. The assertions that the human will, so long as it is left to its own freedom, can do nothing but sin, and that even the mother of our Lord was not free from original and actual sin, together with other such doctrines, drew on him the accusation of heresy. Seventy-six of his propositions were condemned by a papal bull. B. submitted, but nevertheless did not give up his doctrines, and, in consequence, the persecutions to which he was subjected did not cease. lie d. Dec. 16, ]5S9, having earned the reputation of great learning, pure manners, and singular modesty. He may be regarded as the predecessor of who inherited his Augustinian views, which were at that time termed Bajanism. His writings, mostly of a polemical nature, were published by Gerberon (2 vols. Cologne, 1696).
litArZA, ANTON, a Hungarian poet and prose-writer, was b. Jan. 31, 1804, at Szticsi, in IIertes. His poems (2 vols. 1835), which were published in Pesth, earned for him a
place among the best Hungarian lyric poets. In the Kritischea Blattera, to which lie contributed from 1831 to 1836, the Athenecum, and the Figydmeth (Observer), to which he contributed from 1837 to 1843, in common with many of the best literary writers of the day, lie exercised a beneficial influence on the rising literature of Hungary by his severe criticism, and his solid and theoretically correct essays. Ile likewise materially aided the Hungarian stage, then in its infancy, by the publication of the Auslandischen Bane (Foreign Drarnas, Pestli, 1830), and also by his exertions as director of the National Theatre, opened in Pesth on Aug. 22, 1837. At the same time, he had begun to occupy himself with historical studies, and enriched the literature of Hungary, very poor in this respect, with a Tortercti Konyckir (Historical Library, 6 vols., Pesth, 1843-45), which contained translations from many excellent foreign historical works. He also published a compilation from the German, Li Plutarch (The Modern Plutarch, Pestli, 1845-47). His Vildgtortaet (Universal History, Pesth, 1847) is a rather unskillful compilation from Schlosser, Heeren, Rotteck, and other German historians. After Mar., 1848, Kossuth appointed him editor of his half-oflicial organ, the Homuth Hirlapja (July till Dee., 1848), in conducting which, however, lie displayed no great editorial talent. B. was made a member of the Hungarian academy in 1832. He d. Mar., 1858.