Friedrich Dohnányi

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Friedrich Dohnányi (born June 13, 1843 in Szobotist ; † November 10, 1909 in Pressburg ) was a Hungarian mathematician, physicist and musician and played an important role in the intellectual life of Bratislava in the second half of the 19th century .

Life

Friedrich Dohnányi studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna . In 1868, at the age of 25 years, Frederick Dohnányi took up a position as a professor at the School of Kremnica to. After a year he was called to Neusohl . In Neusohl he worked as a cellist in Ján Levoslav Bella's string quartet . Bella's first quartet was premiered with Eduard Reményi .

In 1873 he got a position as professor of mathematics and physics at the royal catholic grammar school in Pressburg . The Catholic grammar school was located in an old monastery that was originally built for the Order of the Poor Clares and had been run by the Dominican Sisters since 1619 . Under Emperor Joseph II. , The monastery was secularized and a gymnasium with an attached from 1786 juridical used faculty.

In 1897/1898 Friedrich Dohnányi built an experimental X-ray laboratory at the school as the first teaching institute for X-ray technology in what was then Hungary. Diagnostic exams for the hospital were also done. Friedrich Dohnányi was the father of the Hungarian-American pianist and composer Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960) and the author of numerous publications that appeared in Pressburg and Budapest.

Friedrich Dohnányi was committed to the field of shorthand . In 1873 he transferred the method of the German stenographer Leopold Arends into Hungarian. From 1888 he published a monthly under the title "Panstenographia". In 1895 he published a religious hymn book for the youth. Friedrich Dohnányi played an important role in the Pressburger Singverein. The Singverein also organized chamber concerts which, thanks to the proximity to Vienna, were attended by important artists and composers such as Franz Liszt , Johannes Brahms , Clara Schumann , Joseph Joachim and Theodor Leschetizky . Friedrich Dohnányi appeared in public with Franz Liszt in this context. Chamber music concerts were held regularly in the Dohnányi's apartment, in which Béla Bartók also took part as a classmate of Ernst Dohnányi.

literature

  • Ladislav Mokrý: Friedrich Dohnányi's position in the cultural history of Pressburg . In: Franz Schmidt and Preßburg (=  studies on Franz Schmidt . No. 12 ). Doblinger, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900695-44-X , p. 56-59 .
  • Emil Kumlik: Dohnányi Frigyes. 1843–1909: egy magyar gyorsíró élete és munkássága . Gyorsírási Ügyek M. Kir. Kormánybiztossága, Budapest 1937 (Hungarian).
  • Dohnány, Fridrich . In Pavol Parenička (ed.): Biografický Slovenska lexicon: C-F . tape 2 . Slovenská Národná Knižnica, Martin 2002, ISBN 80-89023-44-4 , p. 287 (Slovenian).
  • Dohnányi Frigyes . In: Bagossy László (ed.): Encyclopaedia Hungarica: A-H . tape 1 . Hungarian Ethnic Lexicon Foundation, Calgary 1992, ISBN 0-9695894-0-9 , pp. 425 (Hungarian).
  • KUMLIK, E .; DOHNÁNYI, F .: Dohnányi Frigyes 1843–1909. Egy magyar gyorsíró élete és munkássága. Az egységes magyar gyorsírás Könyvtára. sz. 129. 1937 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ladislav Mokrý: Friedrich Dohnányi's position in the cultural history of Pressburg . In: Franz Schmidt and Preßburg (=  studies on Franz Schmidt . No. 12 ). Doblinger, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900695-44-X , p. 56-59 .
  2. ^ Dohnanyi Frigyes. História - Tudósnaptár. Retrieved October 28, 2017 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Nagy Tibor: A fizika tanítása a Hódmezővásárhelyi Bethlen Gábor Református Gimnáziumban a XX. század első évtizedeiben . 2006, p. 26–27 (Hungarian, digitized [PDF]).
  4. ^ Frigyes Dohnányi, Lipót Arends: Arends Lipót alkotta észszerű, Könnyű és biztos gyorsirástan. Magyar nyelvre alkalmazá . Aigner, Budapest 1873 (Hungarian).
  5. ^ Dohnanyi Frigyes. arcanum.hu. Retrieved November 4, 2017 (Hungarian).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Royal Hungarian Elisabeth University in Bratislava was only founded in 1912 and in 1919 transferred to today's Comenius University in Bratislava . The basis for their book inventory was u. a. the collections of the former Bratislava City Library and the collection of the so-called Old Library of the Catholic High School in Bratislava.
  2. ↑ On the monthly, see also Mokrý (1999), not to be confused with the monograph by Friedrich Dohnányi published by Stampfel in 1887 under the title “Panstenographia. Shorthand for all languages, with special emphasis on Hungarian and German as well as Slavic and Latin. For schools and for self-teaching ”.
personal data
SURNAME Dohnányi, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohnányi, Frigyes (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian scientist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Sobotište
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1909
Place of death Bratislava