Peter Püspöki Nagy

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Peter Püspöki Nagy (born April 19, 1944 in Podunajské Biskupice / Slovakia ) is a Slovak heraldist , historian and writer.

Life

Peter Nagy was born as the elder of the two sons of the master baker Peter Nagy (the elder) and his wife from Pressburg , Razalia b. Worm born. The family was closely connected to their hometown Podunajske Biskupice (German Bischdorf , Hungarian Püspöki, later Pozsonypüspöki ). The ancestors on his father's side were Hungarian farmers, the grandfather was the town's mayor. Because of his ties to his hometown, Peter Nagy took the Hungarian name of his place of birth “Püspöki” as a pseudonym at the beginning of his journalistic activity .

After attending primary school in his hometown, he attended the Hungarian grammar school in Bratislava, where he also passed the Abitur in 1962. Originally he intended to become a Catholic priest , therefore he enrolled in 1962 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slov. Rímskokatolícká Cyrilometodská Bohoslovecká Faculty). Because of differences of opinion with the faculty management, he was forced to leave the faculty in 1967. He switched to the philosophy faculty of the university and became a historian and librarian . In 1971 he received the diploma. After that, Püspöki Nagy worked scientifically. The focus of his research was the Hungarian history of the early Middle Ages , the history of writing and heraldry. He completed his dissertation in 1972.

In 1974 Püspöki Nagy was elected a corresponding member of the International Academy of Heraldry (Académie Internationale d´Héraldique) in Paris .

In 1987 he followed a call to Hungary . Between 1987 and 1992 he taught as a professor at the Eötvös Loránt University in Budapest . In 1993 he moved to the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, also in Budapest.

After the political change, Peter Püspöki Nagy was also an advisor to the Hungarian government on the heraldic design of the new Hungarian national coat of arms.

With his book A tények erejével (German: “Through the power of facts”) , published in Chicago , in which the role and effect of the ' Great Moravian Empire ' on today's Slovakia is dealt with, he encountered fierce opposition from Slovak historians and thus bitterly resolved controversial technical discussions. (see web links)

In 1993 he received the " Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize" (Hungarian: Szent-Györgyi Albert -díj) in Hungary for his scientific merits .

Peter Püspöki Nagy is married and retired. He lives in his father's house in Podunajské Biskupice and has no descendants of his own.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1968 Püspöki mezőváros története ("The story of Podunajské Biskupice")
  • 1970 Dunaszerdahely város címere ("The coat of arms of Niedermarkt")
  • 1973 Rozsnyó város címere ("The coat of arms of Resenau")
  • 1976 Zseliz város címere - Erb mesta Želiezoviec ("The coat of arms of Zeliz")
  • 1985 A Csallóköz vízrajzi képének története Strabón Geógraphikájától IV. Béla király koráig ("The history of hydrography on the Big Island up to the time of Béla IV. ")
  • 1989 Piacok és vásárok kezdetei Magyarországon, 1000–1301 ("Markets and market towns in Hungary's early days, 1000–1301")
  • 1989 A Csallóköz neveiről, Győr ("On the names of the Great Schüttinsel")
  • 1992 A latin paleográfia válogatott bibliográfiája ("Selected Bibliography of Latin Paleography ")
  • 2002 Szent Gellért csanádi püspök-vértanú élete és műve ("Life and Work of the Martyr of Csanád , St. Gellért ")

Drafts for the coats of arms of individual localities in Slovakia

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, Püspöki Nagy developed heraldic city coats of arms for seven localities in Slovakia, for which he also gave scientific reasons. The following localities were involved:

Dunajská Streda (Hungarian Dunaszerdahely, German: Niedermarkt)

Nesvady (Hungarian Naszvad)

Rožňava (Hungarian Rozsnyó, German: Rosenau)

Šahy (Hungarian Ipolyság, German: Eipelschlag)

Štúrovo (Hungarian Párkány, German: cackle)

Veľký Meder (Hungarian Nagymegyer, German Groß-Magendorf)

Želiezovce (Hungarian Zselíz, German: Zeliz)

gallery

  • Dunajská Streda

  • Nesvady

  • Rožňava

  • Ahy

  • Štúrovo

  • Veľký Meder

  • Želiezovce

Web links

Szlovákiai Magyar Adatbank (Hungarian)

A tények erejevel ("By the power of facts", Hungarian)

Anima Portal (Hungarian)

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Püspöki Nagy has a younger brother Ladislaus (Hungarian László)
  2. ↑ On January 1, 1972, the place was incorporated into Bratislava and is now part of the Slovak capital.
  3. ↑ The Károly Gáspár University (Hungarian: Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem ) in Budapest was re-established in 1990. It emerges from the "Budapest Reformed Theological Academy", which was founded in 1873.
  4. ↑ The "Albert Szent Györgyi Prize" was founded by the Hungarian government and has been awarded to a maximum of eight people per year since 1991 - on the first Sunday in June.
personal data
SURNAME Nagy, Peter Püspöki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak heraldist, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Podunajské Biskupice , Slovakia