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FEJER, GYORGY (1766–1851)

FEJER, GYORGY (1766–1851) , Hungarian author, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 23rd of See also:

APRIL

April 1766, at Keszthely, in the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Zala. He studied See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at Pest, and See also:

THEOLOGY

theology at See also:

PRESSBURG (Hung. Pozsony, Lat. Posonium)

Pressburg; eventually, in 18o8, he obtained a theological professorship at Pest University. Ten years later (1818) he became See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief director of the educational circle of Raab, and in 1824 was appointed librarian to the university of Pest. Fejer's See also:

WORKS

works, which are nearly all written either in Latin or Hungarian, exceed one See also:

HUNDRED

hundred and eighty in number. His most important See also:

WORK

work, Codex diplomaticus Hungariae See also:

ECCLESIASTICUS (abbreviated to Ecclus.)

ecclesiasticus ac See also:

CIVILIS, CLAUDIUS

civilis, published from 1829 to 1844, in eleven so-called tomes, really exceeds See also:

FORTY

forty volumes. It consists of old documents and charters from A.D. 104 to the end of 1439, and forms an extraordinary See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument of patient See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry. This work and many others See also:

RELATING

relating to Hungarian See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

HISTORY

history have placed Fejer in the foremost See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of Hungarian historians. He died on the 2nd of See also:

JULY

July 1851. His latest works were A Kunok eredete (The Origin of the See also:

HUNS

Huns), and A politikai forradalmak okai (The Causes of See also:

POLITICAL

Political Revolutions), both published in 185o. The latter See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production, on See also:

account of its liberal tendencies, was suppressed by the See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

government. . See Magyar Ir6k: Eletrajz-gyujtemeny (Pest, 1856), and A Magyar nemzeti irodalomtortenet vfizlata (Pest, 1861).

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