Vilmos Fraknói

Vilmos Fraknoi ( born February 17, 1843 in Ürmény / Urmín, today Mojmírovce, Slovakia, † November 20, 1924 in Budapest ) was a renowned Hungarian historian and Catholic priest.

Life

Originally from a Jewish family Fraknoi ( German Wilhelm Frankl ) studied in Trnava and in the spiritual seminars to Gran ( Esztergom ) and Pest Roman Catholic theology and philosophy, 1865, he was ordained a priest.

Only 17 years old, he won an academic prize with the ( Hungarian ) Font sketch of the state of culture of the Magyars under the Dukes ( Pest 1861) and soon after a second, suspended from the University of Pest price with the treatise origin and historical development of the palatine and Colonel national judges dignity ( Pest 1863).

In 1864 he became a professor in Trnava, 1865 in Gran, 1872 Secretary of the Hungarian Academy, 1875 curator of the Hungarian National Museum, 1878 canon in Nagyvárad ( Oradea ) and in 1879 Secretary-General of the academy and Titularabt Szekszárd and Titular Bishop of Rab

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

Writings

  • Peter Pázmány and its age. Pest 1868-69, 2 vols
  • The patriotic and international education in the 16th century. 1873
  • History of Hungary. New edition, 1873-1874 )
  • Monuments of the Hungarian Diet (on behalf of the Hungarian Academy, 1874-77, 6 ​​vols
  • The Life of Archbishop Johann Vitez. 1879
  • The conspiracy of Martinovics. 1880
  • Hungary and the League of Cambrai. 1883
  • Hungary before the Battle of Mohács in 1524-26. Budapest: Lauffer, 1886 ( German of Schwicker, 1886), among others
  • Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary from 1458 to 1490. Edit Based on archival research. by Wilhelm Fraknoi. With the permission of the author from the Hungarian trans. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1891
  • The Ofner Chronicle. 1900
  • Pope Innocent XI. ( Benedict Odescalchi ) and Hungary's liberation from Ottoman rule. Because of diplomatic writings of the Pontifical secret archive. Freiburg: Herder, 1902
  • When to and how can you make peace? Vienna: Frick in 1915
  • Critical Studies in the History of the Triple Alliance 1882-1915. Budapest: Kilian 1917
  • The Hungarian government and the emergence of the World War. Vienna: Seidel 1919
  • The royal election in Hungary: letters to members d d ungar Nationalvers. Vienna: Frick 1920.
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