György Pray
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György Pray (also: George Pray, 11 September 1723 – 23 September 1801) was a Hungarian
Jesuit Abbot, canon, librarian of the University library of Buda
and important historian.
Biography
He was born at Érsekújvár (
Society of Jesus in 1745, spent two years in the Jesuit college (St. Ann's) in the Austrian imperial capital Vienna and completed his higher studies at Nagyszombat (Trnava
).
He taught at Nagyvárad (
moral theology
.
At the
on 23 September 1801.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, Funeral Sermon and Prayer (Latin title "Oratio funebris", meaning 'funeral oration'), dating probably from 1199, in a manuscript 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).
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "George Pray". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ "BLKÖ:Pray, Georg". wikisource.org.
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