György Aranka

George of Aranka, György Aranka, ( born September 15, 1737 Szék, Transylvania, † March 11, 1817 in Marosvasarhely, Transylvania ) was a Hungarian writer and lawyer.

Life

George of Aranka was the son of a reformed superintendent. He received his early education in Marosvasarhely (Romanian: Târgu Mureş ). He already showed memory problems, because those punished him his teacher hard. It was reported by Aranka had been punished by the teachers themselves for coughs with the iron collar. He was trained in Aiud on a seminary then, where he studied philosophy and theology, and after completing his studies teacher of logic was. In addition, he was preparing to become a priest and held sample sermons. He had problems to memorize his sermons, and at a church service, which he held in a village, he forgot a petition of the Lord 's Prayer. This led him in 1764 to be his intention, Cleric to give up. He turned away from theology and decided to become a lawyer.

Even 1764 of Aranka pulpit List with Adam from Nemes. Two years later he was Protokollist at the Registry of Anton Domokos. There, he performed services such as shining shoes or set the table, as it was usual for that time Hungarian law interns. From Domokos showed satisfied by playing cards, for example, with Aranka. Later he was Protokollist of Michael of Cserey, 1774 then at David Székely. Around this time, he learned both the French and the German language. He studied mathematics at Alexander Kovásznai in Târgu Mureş what he had missed during his student days. Around 1777 he began to write poetry.

At the same time dealt Aranka thus, a French-speaking work Drelincourts whose content is to take the fear of death, into Hungarian translate. Finally, he gave the translation out as a philosophical- theological work under the name of his father. He also studied law, and it then not legal departments in Hungary was, so he had to read files from and write processes. Because he was forced to give a lot of sitting, he suffered from hypochondria and an eye weakness, so that he sunlight became unbearable. Temporarily he wore to overcome the last evil, a sun hat. Finally went from Székely with him to Vienna, where his best doctors lived. This claimed by Aranka eye disease was not to heal. A pharmacist in Sighişoara recommended, however, a day to bathe in a river, which slowly fell from Aranka's eyes weakness.

After his recovery went from Aranka back to Vienna, where he expressed the Princess Maria Theresa against the desire to get a job. As she faced him benevolent, they appointed him Supernumerar assessor. 1787 Emperor Joseph II appointed him assessor to Târgu Mureş. In 1790 he was Supernumerar the royal table, in 1796 then real assessors. It was reported that he zuteils employed in meetings with other things, he wrote poems or essays, heard at the same time with. In 1801 he also began lectures on Kant 's philosophy to visit. Since 1804 he also acted as a censor of books.

79 -year-old died of Aranka 1817 in Târgu Mureş, when he fell and hit his head against the wall. They described him as a sociable person. He remained unmarried. Through his positions, he earned enough to live a lot of money. The money, in turn, his father bequeathed to him, he used to support his brother and his friends financially.

Works

George of Aranka wrote many occasional poems, was being noted that he was not born on mastered the art of poetry, and 17 independently published works. He founded in Transylvania a learned society, the concern was to promote the Hungarian language. However, this company was only a few years. He also translated French works. He also collected documents on Transylvanian history.