Ignác Martinovics

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Ignác Martinovics (

Jacobin Clubs
, he was considered an idealistic forerunner of great thought by some, and an unscrupulous adventurer by others.

Biography

Early life, education and academic career

His father, Mátyás Martinovics was one of the nobles who as a result of the

Arsenije III Čarnojević during the Great Migrations of the Serbs and resettled in Délvidék, Hungary.[1][2][3]

Some sources describe Martinovic to be of Albanian descent.[4][5] Other sources described him to be of Serb descent.[6][3][7][8][9] His grandparents converted from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism just some years before the birth of his father Mátyás. During his lifetime, Ignác Martinovics stated that his father was either a Serb tavern keeper or an Albanian noble in military service.[1] Mátyás Martinovics served in the Austrian army,[2] In November 1791, he amoved to Pest.[2] There he married Mária Poppini,[5] a German[1] commoner from Buda, they had five sons and two daughters.

Ignác Martinovics was born in

francophone
intellectuals who were followers of new radical ideas based on French philosophy and enlightenment. In 1791 he was introduced to Ferenc Gotthardi, to the head of the secret police of Emperor Leopold II. Martinovics then sent reports to the secret police about secret or closed companies such as the Illuminati or Freemasons and the disbanded Jesuit order, presumably to straighten out his university career. At this time, he was able to sleep very little, read books continuously to prepare to teach at various European universities, and he had to direct and organize the work of secret agent groups traveling with him. During that time, he had to travel almost in every week, and he accomplished many missions at home and abroad.

Political activity and execution

The execution of Martinovics and his comrades on the Vérmező 1795
The beheaded Ignác Martinovics

Ferenc Gyurkovics, a professor of politics at the University of Pest, worked to organize a secret society to spread such ideas and also edited a revolutionary catechesis. In March 1793, Martinovics was also initiated into his plans, and before his death shortly afterwards, Gyurkovics couldn't persuade Martinovics to join the company yet. In his testament, professor Gyurkovics left his works to Martinovics.

Martinovics career in the secret agency became successful, he was applied as a personal secret agent by

Paris Commune, the very center of the French Revolution, with such famous signatories like Maximilien de Robespierre, Saint-Just and Georges Danton. The letter had a flattering style, which praised his scientific career and talents, however its main purpose was to convince him - as the "most capable person in Hungary" - to organize revolutionary movements and radicalize existing societies and groups in the name of "the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in Hungary and other Habsburg ruled areas. Martinovics could not resist such invitation, and began a wide-ranging organization movements and secret organizations, he recruited members mostly from "trustable" already existing radical societies. In his Oratio pro Leopoldo II Martinovics is explicit that only the authority that follows from a social contract
should be recognized; he saw the aristocracy as the enemy of mankind, because they prevented people from becoming educated. He was in charge of stirring up a revolt against the nobility among the Hungarian serfs. In another of his works, Catechism of People and Citizens, he argued that citizens tend to oppose any repression and that sovereignty resides with the people.

In 1794 revolutionary pressure in Hungary took two forms, a nationalistic aristocratic from the less nobles and gentry and an egalitarian Jacobin form from the bourgeois. Martinovics thus he established two republican secret clubs: one for aristocratic members ("Compagnie des Réformateurs"), and one for members with bourgeois background ("Liberté Égalité Fraternité"). These societies were to have no idea of the others assistance and once the Reformers Society had finished its work it was to be liquidated by the Equality club.[10] For each society, Martinovics wrote a separate "catechism." While both fiercely denounced the reign of Kings and Priests, the one addressed to the Reformers focused on freedom from the Hapsburgs and promised a continuation of the feudal system in contrast to the catechism addressed to the Equality Club which focused on philosophical ideas of "man" and "reason" while promising to abolish serfdom and end noble privilege.[10] He established four territorial directorates for the secret societies, their directors were János Laczkovics, József Hajnóczy, Ferenc Szentmarjay and Jakab Sigray. Martinovics was arrested in Vienna and quickly turned on his fellow Hungarian Jacobins thereby ending the Jacobin movement in Hungary.[10] The discovery of Martinovics' plot helped strengthen counter-revolutionary forces in the Hapsburg Empire. He was executed, together with six other prominent Jacobins, on 20 May 1795. More than 42 members of the republican secret society were arrested, including the poet János Batsányi and linguist Ferenc Kazinczy.[11][12][13][14][15]

Honors

The most important masonic lodge of Budapest belonging to the Hungarian Grand Orient is named after him.[16] Two postage stamp were issued in his honour by Hungary; on 12 June 1919[17] and on 15 March 1947.[18]

Selected works

  • Theoria generalis aequati onum omnium graduum, novis illustrata formulis, ac juxta principia sublimioris calculi finitorum deducta, 1780
  • Tentamen publicum ex mathesi pura, 1780
  • Systema universae philosophiae, 1781
  • Dissertatio physica de iride et halone, 1781
  • Dissertatio de harmonia naturali inter bonitatem divinam et mala creata, ad celeberrimam Hollandiae academiam Leidensem transmissa et nunc primum elucubrata, 1783
  • Dissertatio de micrometro, ope cuius unus geometricus dividitur in 2.985,984 puncta quinti ordinis, 1784
  • Dissertatio physica de altitudine atmospherae ex observationibus astronomicis determinata et anno 1785
  • Praelectiones physicae experimentalis, 1787
  • Memoires philosophiques ou la nature devoilée, 1788
  • Physiologische Bemerkungen über den Menschen, 1789
  • Discussio oratoria in eos, qui in librorum censuram invehuntur
  • Oratio ad proceres et nobiles regni Hungariae 1790. idibus Aprilis conscripta, et Vindobonae supressa, nunc primum in lucem prodit, 1791
  • Oratio pro Leopoldo II. rom. imp. aug. Hungariae, Bohemiae etc. rege ab hungaris proceribus et nobilibus accusato anno 1792
  • Status regni Hungariae anno, 1792
  • Franczia Catechesis, 1795

References

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  3. ^ a b "Koncepcije o Srpskoj Vojvodini, Iliriku, Dunavskoj konfederaciji, Istočnoj Švajcarskoj..." Kulturni centar Novog Sada (in Serbian). 2018-09-07. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  4. ^ Dr. Zsigmond Várady, Martinovics Ignác, p. 19, 1909 Deutsch Zsigmond és társa könyvkereskedése, [1]
  5. ^ a b Vilmos Fraknói, Martinovics élete, p. 11, Budapest, 1921, Az Athenaeum Irodalmi És Nyomdai R.-T. Kiadása, [2]
  6. ^ povijest, Sveučilište u Zagrebu Zavod za hrvatsku (1989). Radovi (in Croatian). Zavod. p. 265.
  7. ^ Balkan Studies: Biannual Publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies. The Institute. 1964. p. 222.
  8. ^ Balcanica. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti, Balkanolos̆ki Institut. 2006. p. 106.
  9. ^ "Игњат Мартиновић".
  10. ^
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  11. ISBN 9781107268692
  12. ISBN 9781317895725
  13. ISBN 9780230550704
  14. ISBN 9780674726413
  15. ISBN 9781118977521
  16. ^ http://szabadkomuvesseg.hu/
  17. ^ "Stamp: Ignác Martinovics (Hungary(Social Revolutionists) Mi:HU 263Y,Sn:HU 200,Yt:HU 242(A),Sg:HU 326A,AFA:HU 242,PHu:HU 298B".
  18. ^ "Stamp: Ignác Martinovics (1755-1795) philosopher (Hungary) (Hungarian Freedom Fighters) Mi:HU 974,Sn:HU 819,Yt:HU 861,Sg:HU 998,PHu:HU 1020".

Sources : 'Paul Lendvai Die Ungarn. Ein Jahrtausend Sieger in Niederlagen.

C. Bertelsmann Verlag
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