Bethlen, son of Lőrinc (12th century) was a Hungarian nobleman, ancestor of the Bethlen and Apafi families.
After leaving Göttingen, Gyarmathi became a teacher-administrator at the Calvinist College in Zalău (Zilah), before returning to work as the family physician to the Bethlens in 1810.
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The Bethlen Castle, built in the 16th century in the French Renaissance style and restored in the 17th-18th centuries in the Baroque style.
Bethlen had been appointed to the office after the Sultan's removal of Gabriel Báthory (ordered to the troops of Iskender Pasha in 1613).