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Ferenc Farkas (Jesuit Priest)
Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (13 December 1742 – 4 June 1807) was a Jesuit priest, parish priest of Nemesapáti, poet, and master canon of the Diocese of Veszprém. Life Ferenc (in English: ''Francis'') was born in Zalaboldogfa in the county of Zala, in the former Kingdom of Hungary as was a member of the ancient Roman Catholic Hungarian noble family Farkas de Boldogfa ( in Hungarian: ''boldogfai Farkas'' család). His father was Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1713-1770), jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala (''alispán of Zala''). His mother was the Hungarian noble lady Anna Mária Rosty de Barkócz (1722-1784), daughter of László Rosty de Barkócz, chief magistrate ( Hungarian: ''főszolgabíró'') of the Vas county and Mária Csapody de Zalalövő. One of his brothers was József Farkas de Boldogfa (1752-1809) Piarist priest, rector of the Piarist convent of Kolozsvár. The other brother from whom descends the family's two branches was János Farkas ...
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Zalaboldogfa
Zalaboldogfa is a village northwest of Zalaegerszeg in Zala County, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and .... References External links Street map Populated places in Zala County {{Zala-geo-stub ...
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Vas County
Vas (, ; ; or ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') of Hungary. It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project. Geography Vas County lies in western Hungary. It shares borders with Austria (Burgenland), Slovenia (Mura Statistical Region), and the Hungarian counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Veszprém (county), Veszprém, and Zala County, Zala. The capital of Vas County is Szombathely. Its area is 3,336 km². History Vas is also the name of a historic administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Hungary, eastern Austria, and eastern Slovenia. The capital of the county was Szombathely. Vas County arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the western part of the county became part of the new Austrian land Burgenland, and a smaller part in the sout ...
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Farkas De Boldogfa Family
Farkas ("Wolf" in Hungarian) is a Hungarian surname and a given name. In Czech and Slovak languages it is rendered as Farkaš. List of persons with the surname * Alexander S. Farkas, former executive of Alexander's, an American department store founded by his father * Andrea Farkas, Hungarian handball goalkeeper * Andrew Farkas, American writer * Andy Farkas, former American football player * Balázs Farkas, Hungarian footballer * Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space * Brian Farkas, former member of North Carolina House of Representatives * David Farkas, American actor, lead singer of Farkas * Dénes Farkas, Dénes Farkas de Boldogfa (1884–1973), landowner, politician, member of the Hungarian Parliament * Edit Éva Farkas, Hungarian lichenologist and mycologist * Evelyn Farkas, American intelligence analyst * Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1713–1770), jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala (''alispán of Zala'') * Fere ...
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People From Zala County
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Hungarian Roman Catholics
Hungarian may refer to: * Hungary, a country in Central Europe * Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946 * Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary * Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the assignment problem * Hungarian language, a Uralic language spoken in Hungary and all neighbouring countries * Hungarian notation, a naming convention in computer programming * Hungarian cuisine Hungarian or Magyar cuisine (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Magyar konyha'') is the cuisine characteristic of the nation of Hungary, and its primary ethnic group, the Hungarians, Magyars. Hungarian cuisine has been described as being the P ..., the cuisine of Hungary and the Hungarians See also * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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1807 Deaths
Events January–March *January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies. *January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with bankruptcy because of the imminent abolition of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on July 29, and it takes effect on January 1, 1808. *February 3 – Napoleonic Wars and Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Montevideo – The British Army captures Montevideo from the Spanish Empire, as part of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata. *February 7 – Napoleon leads the forces of the French Empire in an invasion of the Russian Empire, and begins fighting at the Battle of Eylau against Russian and Prussian forces. *February 8 – Battle of Eylau: Napoleon fights a hard but inconclusive battle against the Russians under ...
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1742 Births
Events January–March * January 9 – Robert Walpole is made Earl of Orford, and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain. On his formally relinquishing office five days later, he will have served 20 years and 314 days as Prime Minister, the longest single term ever, and also longer than the accumulated terms of any other British Prime Minister. * January 14 – Edmond Halley dies; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal of Great Britain. * January 24 – Charles VII becomes Holy Roman Emperor. * January 28? – The House of Commons of Great Britain votes on the alleged rigging of the Chippenham by-election. It becomes a motion of no confidence, which leads to the resignation of Robert Walpole. * February 12 – John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department in Great Britain. * February 15— First Siles ...
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Prebendary
A prebendary is a member of the Catholic Church, Catholic or Anglicanism , Anglican clergy, a form of canon (priest) , canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church. When attending services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of the Choir (architecture) , choir stalls, known as prebendal stalls. History At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the Canon (priest), canons and Ecclesiastical dignitary, dignitaries of the cathedrals of Kingdom of England, England were supported by the produce and other profits from the cathedral estates.. In the early 12th century, the endowed prebend was developed as an institution, in possession of which a cathedral official had a fixed and independent income. This made the cathedral canons independent of the bishop, and created posts that attracted the younger sons of the nobility. Part of the endowment was retained in a common fund, known in Latin as ''communia'', which was used to provide br ...
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Nagykanizsa
Nagykanizsa (; , or just ''Kaniža/Kanjiža''; ; ; ; ), known colloquially as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Zala County in southwestern Hungary. It is a city with county rights. It lies not far from Lake Balaton at the meeting point of five routes. For centuries the town has been a connecting link. Goods from Slavonia were transported to Graz via Nagykanizsa, and the town played an important role in the trade from the Adriatic Sea to the Alpine region, Vienna, and Budapest. History The city's oldest Roman-era ruins were excavated in the 1960s. During the Middle Ages, Nagykanizsa became one of the most important strongholds of the Hungarian Kingdom. The fortress had a significant role in the southern shield-line of Hungary, guarding the whole of Western Europe against attacks by the Ottoman Empire. The name ''Kanizsa'' was first mentioned in a document in 1245. The Kanizsai family continued building the castle and constructed a rectangular castle with an enclosed back yard ...
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University Of Trnava
The University of Trnava (in Trnava) () is based in Trnava, in western Slovakia. The university's presence in the town has historical antecedents as the University of Nagyszombat was operating there throughout the 17th and 18th century (present day Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest). Historical university The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Péter Pázmány in the Kingdom of Hungary. It had a faculty of arts, faculty of theology, faculty of law (since 1667) and faculty of medicine (since 1769). The university lasted 142 years in Trnava (; ) after which it was moved to Buda in 1777 and finally to Pest in 1784. Its legal successor is Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. The Faculty of Theology is now Pázmány Péter Catholic University (in Budapest and Esztergom). In the first academic year, out of forty-eight external logicians, 39.85% were Hungarian, 8.31% were Transylvanian, 4.16% were Croatian, nobles accoun ...
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Prothonotary
A prothonotary is the "principal clerk of a court," from Late Latin, L.L. ''prothonotarius'' (Wiktionary:circa, c. 400), from Greek ''protonotarios'' "first scribe," originally the chief of the college of recorders of the court of the Byzantine Empire, from Greek language, Greek ' ''protos'' "first" + Latin ''notarius'' ("notary"); the ''h'' appeared in Medieval Latin. The title was awarded to certain high-ranking Solicitor, notaries, and was first recorded in the English language in 1447. = Usage = Byzantine Empire The office of ''prōtonotarios'' (), also ''proedros'' or ''primikerios, primikērios'' of the ''notarioi'', existed in mid-Byzantine Empire, Byzantine (7th through 10th centuries) administration as head of the colleges of the ''notarioi'' in various administrative departments. There were ''prōtonotarioi'' of the imperial ''notarioi'' (secretaries of the court), of the various ''sekreta'' or ''logothesia'' (government ministries), as well as for each ''Theme (Byzan ...
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János Farkas De Boldogfa
János Farkas de Boldogfa (17 November 1741 – 12 November 1788) was a Hungarian jurist, lawyer, landowner, Prothonotary of the county of Zala, president of the Supreme court of Zala County ( Latin: "''Inclyti Sedis Iudiciaria Comitatus Szaladiensis Praeses''"). Biography János (in English: ''John''), was born in the family states of Zalaboldogfa in the county of Zala, in the former Kingdom of Hungary, as member of the ancient Roman Catholic Hungarian noble family Farkas de Boldogfa ( in Hungarian: ''boldogfai Farkas'' család). His father was Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1713–1770), jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala ( Hungarian: ''alispán of Zala''), and his mother was the noble lady Anna Mária Rosty de Barkócz (1722–1784). who hailed from the illustrious and ancient noble Perneszy family. His brother was Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1742–1807) Jesuit priest, parish priest of Nemesapáti, poet, master canon of the Diocese of Veszprém. A ...
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