Frigyes Pesty

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Frigyes Pesty (born March 3, 1823 in Timisoara , Austrian Empire , † November 23, 1889 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ) was a Hungarian historian and politician.

Career

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Frigyes Pesty was in 1823 in Timisoara, the son of Riemer born Pesthy. However, due to a spelling mistake, the birth certificate was issued in the name of Pesty. He attended high school in his hometown Timisoara and in Szeged . After graduation, he returned to Timişoara, where he got a job as a subaltern officer in the military command. In 1846 he married Mária Fiala, who gave him four sons and five daughters. Very early on, he campaigned for the interests of the local Hungarian community. During the revolution of 1848 Pesty worked as a civil servant in the Hungarian Ministry of Justice in Budapest and after a short emigration to Turkey was involved in the process of the hidden Hungarian royal crown . Due to illness, he was allowed to return home, but was imprisoned in Budapest shortly afterwards. After his release in 1850, he was arrested again in Orșova and asked about his knowledge of the disappearance of the Hungarian crown jewels.

After proving his innocence, Pesty acted from 1852 to 1864 as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and from 1857 also as secretary of the business association in Temesvár. Pesty founded the Temesvar weekly newspaper "Delejtü" ( compass ) in 1858 , which appeared for the first time on July 23 of the same year. Mainly scientific and economic articles were printed in the sheet. The actual aim of the magazine, however, was the reunification of the breakaway Voivodeship of Serbia and the Temesian Banat with the Kingdom of Hungary. As a result, the magazine has been banned a number of times, Pesty's house examinations have been carried out and its manuscripts have been confiscated.

In 1861 he was elected member of the Reichsrat von Arad . From 1864 Pesty was the general secretary of the first Hungarian industrial bank in Budapest. In 1876 he was elected as a member of the Reichsrat von Kremnitz . Pesty organized the national fundraising campaign for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in 1867 founded the Hungarian Historical Society (Magyar Történelmi Társulat). In the period from 1870 to 1885 he researched all the archives in Hungary, including the private archives. As a result, he created his works "The Serbian Despot G. Branković " and "The Disappeared Former Counties ". 1882 appeared in German "The Origin of Croatia".

His scientific work was of great importance especially for the historical topography of Hungary. In 1877 he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The counties of Krassó and Temes commissioned him with the respective monographs in 1868. This is how three volumes "The Banat of Szörény-Severin and the History of Szörény County" were created. At the same time, the newly founded Hungarian Commission of the Vatican Archives commissioned him to copy the papal tithe lists , for which he spent a few months in the archives of the Vatican in Rome .

In 1862 he was delegated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a representative to the world exhibition in London , where he stayed for a month and then went on a study trip to France , Belgium and southern Germany .

Publications

  • The Serbian despot G. Branković and. . . the title of the Serb. Despots, 1877;
  • The Banat of Szörény-Severin and the history of Szörény County, 3 vols., 1877–78;
  • Place names and history, 1878;
  • The vanished former counties, 2 vols., 1880;
  • The origin of Croatia, in: Ung. Revue, 1882;
  • History of Krassó County. Vol. 2-4, 1882-84;
  • The place names of Hungary in historical, geographical and linguistic terms, Vol. 1, 1888;
  • Manuscripts on Hungarian topography, in the Hungarian National Library, Budapest;
  • Editing of the weekly “Delejtű”, 1858

Web links

Commons : Frigyes Pesty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d diasporatm.ro , Frigyes Pesty
  2. ↑ biographien.ac.at , Frigyes Pesty
personal data
SURNAME Pesty, Frigyes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Timişoara , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1889
Place of death Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary