Ignác Batthyány
Ignác Batthyány , German Ignaz von Batthyány , (born June 30, 1741 in Güssing (Németújvár), Kingdom of Hungary ; † November 17, 1798 in Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) , Grand Duchy of Transylvania ) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic bishop in Transylvania.
Life
Batthyány came from an old and widely ramified Hungarian noble family who, as magnates , counts and princes, later belonged to the most important families in Austria and Hungary. He worked as a librarian at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome . At that time the Collegium had its seat at the church of Sant'Apollinare , which is why it was also called Collegium Apollinare. In his function as Erlauer canon and provost , he also acted as editor. When he was appointed bishop of Karlsburg (Weißenburg) in 1781 , he made a name for himself as "an ardent protector and promoter of the sciences in Transylvania ".
Already during his lifetime Battyány had his valuable library - among other things, he owned a partial volume of the Lorsch Gospel since 1785 - and a legacy of 40,000 Fl. assigned to the Karlsburg observatory . This astronomical facility was founded by himself in 1796. The library, later known under the name “Batthyaneum”, was incorporated into the Romanian National Library in 1961 .
Works (selection)
- Leges ecclesiasticae regni Hungariae . Karlsburg 1785.
- Gerard von Csanád : Acta et scripta . Karlsburg 1790 (editor).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Batthyáni, Ignaz Graf von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 01. part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 176 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Hermann Schefers: A story as exciting as a thriller. The Lorsch Gospel Book, a celebratory book art of the occidental early Middle Ages (www.kloster-lorsch.de 2002) ( Memento from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| László von Kollonich |
Bishop of Transylvania 1780 - 1789 |
József Mártonfi |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Batthyány, Ignác |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Batthyány, Ignaz von; Batthyany, Ignac; Batthyán, Ignatius de; Bathyan, Ignaz; Batthyán, Ignaz de; Palladius, Agamantes (pseudonym); Palladius, Agamas (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman Catholic bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gussing |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1798 |
| Place of death | Alba Iulia |