Jácint János Rónay

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Jácint János Rónay (around 1860)

Jácint János Rónay , (born Leiczinger ; born May 13, 1814 in Székesfehérvár , Hungary; † April 17, 1889 in Pozsony (Bratislava, now Slovakia)) was a Hungarian bishop and writer.

Life

Jácint János Rónay, who was called Leiczinger until 1833, joined the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma in 1831 and was ordained a priest in 1839. From 1840 he taught at the Győr religious school . At the University of Pest he received his doctorate in 1842. phil. At the Hungarian Academy of Sciences he was a corresponding member from 1847 and a full member from 1866.

During the Hungarian Revolution in 1848/1849 he served as a field chaplain with the ku Landwehr , fled to England in 1850 after the defeat and stayed in London . There he worked as a private tutor, where he also taught the children of Kossuth , who was also in exile at the time, and as a journalist. In English he published a treatise in 1865 on the African travels of his compatriot László Magyar in the yearbooks of the London Royal Geographical Society , and in 1866 a treatise on a subject provided by another Hungarian traveler, Antal Reguly : The Voguls and a Vogul Legend of the creation of the Earth , in the Nottingham British Association yearbooks . After the turnaround in public affairs in Austria, he returned to Hungary in 1866. In 1871 he was appointed Section Council in the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education. In the years 1871/1872 he taught Crown Prince Rudolf and from 1875 to 1883 Archduchess Marie Valerie in Hungarian history . Rónay left the order in 1871 and became Grand Provost of Pozsony in 1872. In 1873 he became titular bishop of Scutari in what is now Albania. From 1879 to 1883 he was a member of the Reichstag for the Liberal Party .

Rónay lived in Pressburg continuously since 1883, where he wrote numerous newspaper articles as well as literary and scientific articles. He was the first to propagate Darwinism in Hungary. He greatly adored Joseph II .

He died in Pressburg in 1889, where he is buried at the Andreas cemetery .

Works

  • Mutatvány a tapasztalati lélektan köréből ( Explanations from the field of empirical psychology), Győr 1846
  • Jellemisme vagy az angol, francia, magyar, német, olasz, orosz, spanyol nemzet nö, férfiú és életkorok jellemzése lélektani szempontból (characteristic of the English, French, Hungarians, Germans, Italians, Russians, Spaniards, both men and Spain psychological point of view) , Győr 1847
  • A tűzimádó bölcs. Az ősvilágok emlékeiről (The Fire Worshiper. On the Monuments of the Primeval Worlds), Pest 1860
  • Fajkeletkezése az embernek (The Origin of Races), 1864, 2nd ed. 1866
  • Hatvan év reményei és csalódásai (60 Years of Hopes and Disappointments), 8 volumes, 1885–87

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SURNAME Rónay Jácint János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian bishop and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Székesfehérvár , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1889
Place of death Bratislava