Jesenský (noble family)
The Jesenský (other forms of name: Jessensky, Jessinsky, Je (s) senius, Hungarian Jeszenszky) , often with the addition of de Magna Jessen / von (Groß-) Jessen , were a noble family with possessions mainly in the Kingdom of Hungary (Slovakia) and in Bohemia . Their roots are in the Slovak region of Turz .
The first documented representative of the family was Michael Jessenský from the Turz in 1274 . The family is said to have named itself after the place "Welke Jaseno" (lat. Magna Jessen; Horné Jaseno since 1920, part of Turčianske Jaseno since 1973 ). In the Middle Ages, the Jesenský also had possessions in the southern Kingdom of Hungary.
Ladislav Jesenský died in 1526 in the Battle of Mohács , after which large parts of the Kingdom of Hungary and with it many of the family's possessions fell under Ottoman rule. Then some of the Jesenskýs left royal Hungary. The brothers Melchior, Lorenz and Balthasar went to Silesia and lived in Breslau and Schweidnitz .
Balthasar's son, Ján Jesenský, known by the semi-Latin form of the name Jan Jessenius , achieved fame as a scientist and politician. The family's descendants now live in Slovakia , the Czech Republic and Germany.
Other known members of the family:
- Jan Jesenius (1566–1621), physician, politician and philosopher
- Danó Jessensky (stage name Temérdek ; 1824–1906), lawyer
- Růžena Jesenská (1863–1940), writer, sister of the dentist Jan Jesensky
- Jan Jesenský (dentist) (1870–1947), dentist and university professor, brother of Růžena Jesenská
- Alexander Jessensky ( Alexander Sándor Jessensky ; 1873-1947), politician
- Janko Jesenský (1874–1945), Slovak writer and translator
- Milena Jesenská (1896–1944), journalist and translator, daughter of the dentist Jan Jesenský
- Jan Jesensky, Jr. (1904-1942), dentist
- Géza Jeszenszky (* 1941), Hungarian politician