In the Hungarian education system, dividing children into separate groups on the basis of native language skills was first initiated in 1580 by school rector, pedagogue and evangelical priest, Pál Halvepápius, in Besztercebánya (Rosenauer, 1876). However, the foundations of speech communication have been a major interest even before that. Jesuit priest Pelbárt Temesvári (b.1435–d.1504) explored the anatomy and physiology of speech impediments in the sixteenth century and the history of the subject has remained very active ever since (Albert Szenczi Molnár, b.1574–d.1634, see Szenczi Molnár, 1610/1969; Farkas Kempelen (also known as Wolfgang von Kempelen), b.1734–d.1804, see Kempelen; 1791/1989).