Vilmos Fraknói

Vilmos Fraknói

Vilmos Fraknói (born February 17, 1843 in Ürmény / Urmín, today Mojmírovce , Slovakia , † November 20, 1924 in Budapest ) was a well-known Hungarian historian and Catholic clergyman.

Life

Fraknói ( German: Wilhelm Frankl ), who came from a Jewish family, studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy in Tyrnau and at the spiritual seminaries in Gran (Esztergom) and Pest . In 1865 he was ordained a priest.

Only 17 years old, he won an academic prize with the (Hungarian) script Sketch of the State of the Culture of the Magyars under the Dukes (Pest 1861) and soon afterwards a second prize awarded by the University of Pest with the treatise Origin and Historical Development of the Palatine and regional judge (Pest 1863).

In 1864 he became professor in Tyrnau, 1865 in Gran, 1872 secretary of the Hungarian Academy, 1875 custodian of the Hungarian National Museum , 1878 Canon in Nagyvárad and in 1879 general secretary of the academy and titular abbot of Szekszárd and titular bishop of Rab .

From 1870 he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , and he also founded the Hungarian Historical Institute in Rome.

Fonts

• Peter Pázmány and his age . Pest 1868-69, 2 vols.
• The national and foreign education system in the 16th century . 1873
• History of Hungary . New ed. 1873 to 1874)
• Monuments of the Hungarian Diet (commissioned by the Hungarian Academy, 1874–77, 6 vols.
• The life of Archbishop Johann Vitéz . 1879
• The Martinovics' conspiracy . 1880
• Hungary and the League of Cambrai . 1883
• Hungary before the Battle of Mohács 1524–26 . Budapest: Lauffer, 1886 (German von Schwicker, 1886) and others
• Mathias Corvinus , King of Hungary 1458–1490. Based on archival research. by Wilhelm Fraknoi. Translated from the Hungarian with the permission of the author . Freiburg i. E.g .: Herder 1891
• The Ofner Chronicle . 1900
• Pope Innocent XI. (Benedikt Odescalchi ) and Hungary's liberation from Turkish rule. Based on the diplomatic writings of the Papal Secret Archives . Freiburg i. Br .: Herder 1902
• When should one and how can one make peace? Vienna: Frick 1915
• Critical studies on the history of the Triple Alliance 1882–1915 . Budapest: Kilian 1917
• The Hungarian Government and the Origin of the World War . Vienna: Seidel 1919
• The election of a king in Hungary: letters to d. Members d. Hungarian national vers . Vienna: Frick 1920.

literature

• Fraknói (Frankl) Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 341.

Web links

• Literature by and about Vilmos Fraknói in the catalog of the German National Library

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