Given the question: Facts: - signature: josikasign01.jpg - order: chancellor of transylvania - successor: demeter napragyi - monarch: sigismund bathory - predecessor: farkas kovacsoczy - death date: 11 september 1598 - spouse: borbala fuzy - term end: 1598 - term start: 1594 - name: istvan josika - nationality: romanian - death place: szatmar mare , romania -rrb- , principality of transylvania -lrb- today : satu Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of istvan josika .
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baron istvan josika de branyicska or Stefan josika -lrb- ?-- 11 september 1598 -rrb- was a romanian-born hungarian noble in the principality of transylvania , who served as chancellor of transylvania from autumn 1594 to august 1598 .he was the ancestor and first prominent member of the '' baron josika de branyicska '' family .