George Pray (11 September 1723 - [[23 September 1801) was a Hungarian Jesuit Abbot, canon, librarian of the University library of Buda and important historian. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1723 ( MDCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1801 ( MDCCCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order
Biography
He was born at Ersekujvár on 11 September 1723 in a family which came from the Tyrol. Nové Zámky ( Érsekújvár Neuhäusl Uyvar Novum Castrum is a town in southwestern Slovakia. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1723 ( MDCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a He studied in Pressburg (present day Bratislava), entered the Society of Jesus in 1745, spent two years in the Jesuit college (St. ARTICLE TEXT BEGINS AFTER THESE COMMENTS - PLEASE READ 1 Please do not edit the lead without reading The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Ann's) in the Austrian imperial capital Vienna and completed his higher studies at Nagy-Szombat. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria.
He taught at Nagy-Varád, Trencsén, Nagy-Szombat and Pressburg. Oradea (pronunciation in Romanian:, Hungarian: Nagyvárad, colloquially also Várad, German: Großwardein, former Trenčín ( also known under alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech In 1754 he was ordained priest and continued teaching, now in Rozsnyó and in the Theresianum at Vienna, where he was professor of political science, and at the same time tutor to the princesses of Salm. Rožňava (Rozsnyó Rosenau Latin: Rosnavia) is a town in Slovakia, approximately 75 km by road from Košice in the Košice Region In British Australian New Zealand Italian and some Canadian universities, a tutor is often but not always a Postgraduate Student or a Lecturer Salm may refer to rivers in Germany, tributary to the river Moselle, see Salm River (Germany; He was professor in Györ (1758), Nagy-Szombat (1759) and Buda (1760), where he lectured, among other subjects, on moral theology. Győr (ˈɟøːr, known under alternative names) is the most important city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county and lies Ethics is a branch of Philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behavior
At the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, he went to the Archdiocese of Gran and Empress Maria Theresa appointed him imperial historiographer, with a yearly income of 400 florins. The Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by 1767 was a result The archbishopric of Esztergom was a historical Diocese created in 1000 in the Kingdom of Hungary largely on the territory of the Nitrian Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia see also names in other languages; May 13, 1717 November 29 1780) was the Archduchess regnant When the University of Nagy-Szombat was transferred to Pesth in 1777, Pray was given charge of the library; he resigned this position in 1780, but resumed it in 1784. During this year he surrendered his manuscripts and collection of documents to the university library for a life annuity of 400 florins. He became canon in Grosswardein (Oradea) in 1790, and was sent by the chapter as its representative to the Hungarian Diet. A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανωνικος 'relating to a rule' is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Oradea (pronunciation in Romanian:, Hungarian: Nagyvárad, colloquially also Várad, German: Großwardein, former Chapter ( Latin capitulum) designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Nordic Lutheran Later he became Abbott of Tormowa. He died in Pesth on 23 September 1801. Pest (ˈpɛʃt Slovak: Pešť, Croatian: Pešta, Serbian: Пешта / Pešta is the eastern mostly flat part of Budapest Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1801 ( MDCCCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday
Works
His literary activity embraced the history of Hungary, especially the early centuries, the history of the Catholic church in Hungary, and editing the sources of Hungarian history.
He was the first to draw attention to the oldest coherent text in the Hungarian language, "Oratio funebris" (Latin title meaning 'funeral oration'), dating probably from 1199, which was called after him "The Pray-codex".
Among his works may be mentioned
- "Annales veteres Hunnorum Avarorum et Hungarorum, 210 ad 997" (Vienna, 1761)
- "Annales regum Hungariæ, 997-1564" (5 volumes, Vienna, 1763-70)
- "Vita S. Elizabethæ" (Vienna, 1770)
- "Specimen Hierarchiæ Hungariæ" (2 volumes, Presburg, 1776-9).
Source
- This article incorporates text from the entry George Pray in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia [1]
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