Peter Pazmany was the soul of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Hungary, and as chief pastor of the Catholic Church, he used every means in his power to obstruct and weaken Protestansim; he founded seminaries in 1619 and 1623 for theological candidates.
Peter Pazmany, S.J. The Kingdom of Hungary between 1526 and 1867 was outside the Holy Roman Empire but part of the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy that became the Austrian Empire in 1804. Pazmany was to become the soul of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Hungary. As the chief pastor of the Catholic Church in Hungary, Pazmany used every means in his power, short of absolute contravention of the laws, to obstruct and weaken Protestantism, which had risen during the 16th century. In 1619 he founded a seminary for theological candidates at Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia), and in 1623 laid the foundations of a similar institution at Vienna, the still famous Pazmaneum, at a cost of 200,000 florins. (also called de Panasz in some sources; Hungarian: panaszi Pazmany Peter, pronounced [pnsi pazma petr; Latin: Petrus Pazmanus; German: Peter Pazman; Slovak: Peter Pazman; 4 October 1570  19 March 1637), was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. 
