György Festetics (farmer)
György Festetics (Georg Graf Festetics von Tolna) (born January 1, 1755 in Simaság , † April 2, 1819 in Keszthely in Hungary) was a Hungarian agrarian reformer from the Festetics de Tolna family , a noble family of Croatian descent.
Live and act
As a Hungarian officer, Festetics and a few others submitted proposals to the Hungarian Diet of the Kingdom of Hungary , which, like the Archduchy of Austria, was under the reign of Joseph II and Leopold II in 1790 , regarding reforms of the service and command language in purely Hungarian units . Instead of achieving success, he was disciplined and even imprisoned for several months.
When he was released in 1791, he retired to his country estate and was intensively involved in agriculture and achieved groundbreaking successes. In 1797 he founded the oldest agricultural university in Europe, the Georgikon, in Keszthely . In 1807 he built a forest and hunting school and a school for stud and rider customers at this university. Today the university is a museum.
In 1802 he was elected an honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
In 1817 he introduced the Helikon Festival in the palace gardens of his hometown , to which artists and cultural workers from the Hungarian scene at the time were invited.
He had close contacts with his distant relatives in Croatia and in 1791 bought the Međimurje estate in the northernmost part of Croatia .
His sister was Julianna Festetics, who was married to Ferenc Széchényi .
literature
- Festetics from Tolna, Georg Graf . In: Franz Gräffer , Johann J. Czikann: Oesterreichische National-Enzyklopädie . Volume 6. Vienna 1837, p. 437.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Festetics, Georg Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 209 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Festetics, Count György. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 306.
- Kálmán Benda: Festetics of Tolna, György Graf . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, p. 511 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly correspondence for the transport of the earth and sky customer, Volume 16, page 481, accessed on February 28, 2010
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 79.
- ↑ Keszthely - City of Festetics ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 28, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Festetics, György |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Georg Graf Festetics of Tolna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian farmer and reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simaság , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1819 |
| Place of death | Keszthely , Hungary |