Balázs Hospodár (February 1, 1893 – presumably Pennsylvania, USA, August 1982) was a Roman Catholic priest, pastor of the Diocese of Oradea, and, after emigrating to the United States, a Reformed pastor, teacher, and writer. He began his priestly career in the Diocese of Oradea; in 1922, he left for America, where he changed denominations and became one of the pastors of the Hungarian Reformed diaspora.

He was born on February 1, 1893; his place of birth is not yet known. He completed his studies at the seminary in Oradea, and on July 13, 1915, he was ordained a pastor in Oradea by Bishop Miklós Széchényi. He began his priestly ministry as a military chaplain and subsequently served as an assistant pastor in Betlentelep (Sólyomkővár) starting on July 15, 1915. Later that same year, he was transferred to Endrőd as a curate, and in 1916 he was appointed to Békéscsaba. In 1919, he became the chaplain at the Gyula sanatorium, and in 1920, he served as the parish administrator in Magyarcséke. That same year, he was assigned as a curate in Élesd, and in October 1922, he returned to serve in Békéscsaba. In addition, he served as a field chaplain for the Szeged district of the National Army with the rank of captain.

In 1922, with the permission of Bishop Miklós Széchényi, he emigrated to the United States. Initially, he studied at the Reformed Theological Institute in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1924, he taught at the Hungarian summer schools in Baxter and Rivesville, West Virginia, where a play he wrote for children was also performed. In 1925, he was ordained as a Reformed pastor, and from 1925 to 1927, he served as the regular pastor of the Hungarian Reformed congregation in Tonawanda, New York. He also helped organize the Hungarian Reformed mission in Canada; among other things, he assisted in establishing the mission in Ontario by recommending a Hungarian-speaking pastor.

He later returned to the Catholic Church, only to leave it again. He then became an employee of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He married the daughter of Alexander Kövér-Cover, a city councilman from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and president of the American Hungarian Reformed Association; however, they later divorced.

In later years, he went by the names Blaise Hospodar and Blaise Hospodar de Kornitz. In the mid-1930s, he is mentioned as a faculty member at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas. In 1953, his work on the history of religion, *Salome: Virgin or Prostitute?*, was published in New York and was cited in the scholarly literature of the time.

He passed away in the United States in August 1982. His last known place of residence was McKeesport, Pennsylvania; however, the exact location of his death and the site of his burial are currently unknown.

Salome: Virgin or Prostitute?, New York, Pageant Press, 1953.