Karl Benyovszky

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Karl Benyovszky (born July 4, 1886 in Preßburg , Austria-Hungary , † January 6, 1962 in Bad Aussee , Styria ) was an Austrian journalist and historian .

Life

Karl Benyovszky was born on July 4, 1886 as the son of the photographer Franz Benyovszky (* 1858, † 1907) and his wife Gisela born. Kuncsics (* 1868, † 1951) was born in Preßburger Brückengasse 2. He comes from the Hungarian noble family Benyovszky from Eisenburg County . The paternal grandfather Franz Benyovszky d. Ä. (* 1828, † 1903) came from Jánosháza and was married to a Katharina Schnitzel (* 1826, † 1885). Karl attended elementary school in Pressburg. At a young age he discovered his love for his hometown Pressburg, which he never let go of throughout his life. At a young age he became literary and wrote numerous essays, especially about his native city of Pressburg.

Benyovszky first learned the trade of bookseller and worked in publishing until 1907. After serving in the military, he joined the police in Bratislava and in 1912 became a detective in the State Police in Budapest . In 1918 he was promoted to deputy chief of police, but returned to Pressburg in 1924, where he took over the editing of the Pressburger Zeitung in 1927 and of the border messenger in 1928 .

Despite his name written according to Hungarian orthography, German was the language of his journalistic activities throughout his life. As a historian and writer, he took an active part in the fate of his hometown. The image of Alt-Preßburg lives on in all of his works.

In Pressburg he met the city archivist and music critic Johann Nepomuk Batka the Elder. J. (1845–1917), who promoted his cultural-historical ambitions. Benyovszky's main work eventually became the first comprehensive biography of the Pressburg-born composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel . In addition, he was able to see the extensive estate that was then with Hummel's grandson Wilhelm Hummel in Florence .

For twenty years he worked on an extensive monograph on the “Theater History of Preßburg”. The manuscript came to Berlin in 1944 , where it was to appear in book form. However, it disappeared in the turmoil of World War II . A job that can never be done again, as most of the documents that Benyovszky still had are no longer accessible or are no longer available today.

Karl Benyovszky was married three times, but a child's blessing did not set in until his third marriage. With his third wife he had the children Béla, Maria and Karl. The children Magyarized and took their mother's name, Szelényi . A grandson of Benyovszky's (Karl's son) Karl Szelényi (born April 26, 1943 in Budapest) is a well-known photographer and lives in Budapest.

After the Second World War, Karl Benyovszky had to leave Pressburg. As a German, he was expelled from Slovakia on the basis of the Beneš decrees . He settled in Bad Aussee and worked there mainly as a freelance writer until his death.

Works

Selection; the list does not claim to be complete.

  • Memories of a detective , Leipzig-Vienna: Naumann / Perles 1926
  • The old theater. Cultural-historical study from the past of Bratislava , Pressburg: Angermayer 1926
  • Little things about theater history , Pressburg: Steiner 1929
  • Ex libris by Karl Benyovszky (A work by the graphic artist and painter Karl Frech )
    Adam Friedrich Oeser , Goethe's drawing teacher . Based on unpublished letters , Leipzig: Thomas 1930
  • Legendary things from Alt-Pressburg , S. Steiner, Bratislava-Pressburg 1930
  • Legendary things from Old Pressburg, New Series , S. Steiner, Bratislava-Pressburg 1931
  • Picturesque corners and courtyards from the old Pressburg , S. Steiner, Bratislava-Pressburg 1932
  • Bratislava ghetto pictures , edited by Karl Benyovszky and Josef Grünsfeld Jun., S. Steiner, Bratislava-Pressburg 1932
  • Gallows and executioners in the old Pressburg , Pressburg: Steiner 1933
  • JN Hummel : Man and Artist, Bratislava 1934
  • The old Pressburger Volkschauspiele , S. Steiner, Bratislava-Pressburg 1934
  • Hummel and his hometown, with 8 illustrations and a guide through the Hummel Museum , Bratislava: Steiner 1937
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Eisenstadt . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Year 6, Eisenstadt 1937, issue 3, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • Bratislava-Pressburg in words and pictures. A guide through the capital of Slovakia , Bratislava: Steiner 1938
  • Walk through Old Pressburg , Bratislava-Pressburg 1943
  • The plague column at Aussee. An original contribution to the local history of Bad Aussee. Based on unpublished documents , Bad Aussee: Kurverwaltung 1948
  • Bad Aussee . A guide through the health resort , Vienna: Gerlach & Wildling 1948

In addition , various articles from the pen of Karl Benyovszky appeared in the Carpathian Yearbooks (published by the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Karpatendeutschen" in Stuttgart), years 1951 to 1962. See the complete catalog for 60 volumes of the Carpathian Yearbook (author and subject index) by Hans Kobialka, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-927020-14-6

literature

  • P. Rainer Rudolf, Eduard Ulreich: Karpatendeutsches Biographisches Lexikon. Working group of the Carpathian Germans from Slovakia, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-927096-00-8 .
  • Complete catalog for 60 years of the Carpathian Yearbook (author and subject index) by Hans Kobialka, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-927020-14-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "Grenzbote" was a German-language daily newspaper, it was the successor to the " Westungarian Grenzbote " which was banned in 1919 because of its adjective "West Hungarian" and had to cease its publication.
personal data
SURNAME Benyovszky, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1962
Place of death Bad Aussee , Styria