Martin Georg Kovachich

Martinus Georgius Kovachich Senqviciensis on Hungarian bronze medal for his 70th birthday (1813) reverse

Martin Georg Kovachich (Latin: Martinus Georgius Kovachich Senqviciensis ; Hungarian: Kovachich Márton György ; born November 9, 1743 in Schenkwitz (near Pressburg ); † December 1, 1821 in Ofen ) was a Hungarian historian and diplomat .

Life

Kovachich Custos (librarian) was at the Pest University Library, explored from 1810 to 1815 and his son Joseph Nicholas Kovachich at his own expense the archives of Hungary and bequeathed 300 folios -Handschriften the Hungarian National Museum .

He conducted extensive correspondence with Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm , Gustav Gottlieb Büsching , Friedrich Nicolai , Johannes von Müller and Georg Heinrich Pertz, among others .

Memberships

• Society for Older German History , then Frankfurt (1820)

Works (selection)

• Vestigia Comitorum apud Hungaros from exordio regni eorum in Pannonia usque ad hodiernum diem celebratorum , e scriptoribus ac diplomatibus eruit… edidit Martinus Georgius Kovachich Senquicziensis. [Main volume]. Budae: Typis Regiae Universitatis 1790. Full text
• Supplementum ad Vestigia Comitiorum ... , 3 volumes, 1798–1801. Full text volume 1 , full text volume 2 , full text volume 3
• Institutum diplom.-historicum , Pest 1791.
• Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum minores hactenus inediti , 2 volumes, Ofen 1798. Full text volume 1 , full text volume 2
• Formulas solennes styli in cancellaria, curiaque regum, foris minoribus, ac locis credibilibus, authenticisque regni Hungariae olim usitati , ed. MG Kovachich, Pest 1799. Full text
• Codex authenticus juris Tavernicalis statutarii communis. Complectens monumenta vetera et recentiora partim antea vulgata partim hactenus inedita. Editus industria MG Kovachich. Buda, Pest: Kilian 1803.
• Collection of small, as yet unprinted pieces in which simultaneous writers have recorded individual sections of Hungarian history , Volume 1, Ofen 1805, printed with royal university writings, LII, 482 pages. Full text
• Indices reales historici in decreta comitialia… regum Hungariae ...: Index realis geographico-topographicus … / nova industria conscripti a Martino Georgio Kovachich ..., Budae 1806, XLII, 479 pages. Full text
• Codex juris decretalis ecclesiae Hungaricae quem ad sua capita revocatum, et in ordinem systematicum reductum, sub suis rubricis, ipso textu decretorum comitialium fideliter expressit , fontes rite citavit, et venerabili clero S. Ecclesiae Hungaricae reverichusenter dius 2 Kovachit Martin dius , Pestini: Typis Joannis Thomae Trattner 1815. Full text volume 1 ,
• Astræa, complectens subsidia literaria ad historiam legislationis et ... Conscripta communi opera Martini Georgii, et Josephi Nicolai Kovachich Senqviciensium. Tomus II. Budae, Typis Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae 1823. Full text volume 2

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kovachich, Martin Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 64–66 ( digitized version ).
• Kovachich Martin Georg , in: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 11, Leipzig 1907, p. 547.
• Benda:  Kovachich Márton György. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 167.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Katalin Gönczi: The European foundations of the Hungarian legal culture. Legal knowledge transfer and national jurisprudence in Hungary at the time of the Enlightenment and in the Vormärz , Frankfurt: Klostermann 2008, XII, 319 pages (= legal cultures of modern Eastern Europe, 4). ISBN 978-3-465-04040-8 , (Restricted preview pages 175 f. )