György Pray’s Unpublished Memoir

Báthory, Orsolya (2010) György Pray’s Unpublished Memoir. In: Pietas non sola Romana : Studia memoriae Stephani Borzsák dedicata. Typotex Kiadó – Eötvös Collegium, Budapest, pp. 515-520. ISBN 958-963-9548-24-3

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A brief presentation of an unpublished work by György Pray which is titled as Epitome rerum sub Josepho secundo, Leopoldo secundo et Francisco primo regibus Hungariae gestarum. Its topic is the exposé of the main internal and foreign political events of the reign of three kings: Joseph II, Leopold II, and Francis I. In this writing Pray does not break the annalistic tradition which characterizes the Jesuit historian school, in other words he reports the events connecting them to the given years. The 21-year long period which is included in this writing lasts from 1780 (Joseph II comes to the throne) to the April of 1801 (the Battle at Copenhagen). Pray was prevented from continuing his work by his illness and later by his death in September, 1801.

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