CONTENT
ZSOLT MÓROCZ:
ST. STEPHEN KING
The essay attempts to reconstruct the
character of St. Stephen. To the formation of the king's
personality a decisive effect was exerted by the sacral origin
and mission consciousness of the Árpád-family. The pagan prince
became a convinced Christian due to the impact exerted by St.
Adalbert. His belief was characterised by a deep spirituality and
immovability from which his determined acts have derived. He
became a king in the Augustinian sense of the word (iustus, pius
et pacificus). Since St. Stephen, the Hungarians - excepting the
communist intermezzo (1948-1989) - are the members of the
European cultural community.
VILMOS BRENNER:
JOHANNES AQUILA
(Data and
thoughts to the life of the great pannonic master of the gothic
painting)
The multilingual
Pannonic area appeared as an individual fine-art scene as a
result of the activity of Johannes Aquila by the turn of the 14th
and 15th century. The significant master of the Gothic
painting born at Radkersburg acted in the geographical triangle
defined by the localities Velemér-Radkersburg-Fürstenfeld. In
his works, the influence of the Luxemburg-house German-Roman
emperors' monuments from Prague can be demonstrated as well as
the influence deriving from Italy through Tirol and Friaul.
SÁNDOR IVÁN
KOVÁCS: VERSICULA OF THE MÁTYÁS ZRÍNYI'S STUDY ANDTHE EPISODE
CONCERNING VAS: THE KÖRMEND BATTLE IN 1458
On 7th
April 1458 the German-Roman emperor Frederic has defeated the
army of Simon Nagy, ban of Macsó. (C. f. Bonfini, Lib. X,
25-45.) Mathias, Hungarian King has sent ban Simon to fight the
empereror again and this time the ban defeated the emperor. The
two battles (together with the victory of Mathias at Jajca) have
been interpreted by Miklós Zrínyi (1620-1664) in his Latin and
Hungarian verses in his study about Mathias, the poet and
war-lord, as well as in rhythmic and alliterating rhymed adagios.
Among these, the origin of the "Reddidit amissum fugiens
Germanus honorem / Dum pro te fortis militat ipse Deus" is
not known to the Hungarian philology. Is it the part of the poem
written about the Körmend battle? Or, a New Latin quote adapted
to it? Also are missing the analogues to the Zrínyi's poem cycle
concerning Vas Shire: "Vas / shire / vomited / smoke, /
smokes". (Vas / vármegye / füstöt / vetett, /
füstölög."). The former appears to be a poem while the
latter a folk-poetry. Whether are there German (Austrian)
analogies as well? The author welcomes any contribution to the
address of the Vasi Szemle.
KÁLMÁN SZÉLL:
DR. LAJOS SMIDT (1903-1975)
(The doctor,
poet and museum-founder collector)
The author
remembers Dr. Lajos Smidt, deceased 25 years ago, a hospital
director, head surgeon, poet and collector. Lajos Smidt acquired
during his life a valuable and precious collection that he
bequeathed to the city of Szombathely. His collection that is
unique in Hungary can be seen in the Smidt Museum at Szombathely.
The museum is one of the show-places of Szombathely. The author
indicates in the biography part of the study that Smidt's medical
career was broken because of his religious belief but he still
received recognition as a collector. He was a versatile physician
and a good man who rightly deserves the gratitude and
appreciation of the posterity.
FERENC KAPILLER:
"TO SUFFER OF LOVE" (Part III.)
The study
presents the life sacrifice of Ferenc Kováts (1932-1958), a
curate of Gencsapáti. The analyse does not content with the
sheer event description - in a more superficial approach the
story would hardly be more than an "usual" AVO-history;
the faith-martyrdom becomes a whole for us together with the
authentic picture of the spirit and the intellect.
Faithful to his self-sacrifice
made when he was a seminarist, the curate of Gencsapáti endured
even the largest sufferings with an exemplary firmness until his
death. Here we can read extracts from his sermons as well.
LÁSZLÓ
GYÜRKI: THE SECRET OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
The complete
publication of the documents discovered near the Dead Sea more
than 50 years ago has not been made - up to this day. Among
others, this also yielded erroneous opinions and premature
conclusions. One of them is that the Vatican "retains"
the publication of the scrolls since compromising documents can
be found in them regarding the early Christianity. The present
paper surveys the history of the scrolls' publication, the
relation between the Essenians and the Christianity as well as
indicates that the early Christianity can more exactly understood
with the help of the Qumran findings.
SZABOLCS KESZEI:
THE CHIEF'S DOCTOR
The name of Dr.
Lajos Markusovszky is familiar in Vas County. He is buried here,
the county hospital is bearing his name. It is widely known that
he participated in the War of Independence in 1848-49. The author
disproves the errors concerning this period and presents the real
activity of Markusovsky in 1948-49, emphasizing the less known
but very important period when he carried out the treatment of
the seriously wounded General Artúr Görgey.
DÉNES
BARTHA-ATTILA J. KOVÁCS: A BOTANIST FROM WESTERN-TRANSDANUBIA
(The work of
József Jeanplong)
Dr. József
Jeanplong retired Associate Professor, the Honorary Doctor of the
Gödöllő University, although was not born in the Vas region,
he is still tied to it by his youth and the major part of his
work. The article is more than a simple paying obeisance to the
life and research work of the 80-year-old botanist. The majority
of his studies was published on the area of floristics,
coenology, nature conservation, history of botany and education.
Many of them appeared in Vasi Szemle. His papers are serving the
cause of the Western-Transdanubian botany since 1941.
NORBERT
BAUER-BALÁZS KESZEI: ADDENDA TO THE KNOWLEDGEOF THE VEGETATION
OF THE KŐSZEG-MOUNTAINS
During the field
surveys the following new species were found in the neighbourhood
of Kőszeg: Thalictrum simplex, Schoenoplectus
tabernaemontani, Poa supine. Among these, the
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani is new to the mountain's flora
while the other two species occurrences were known previously on
the Austrian side. The species that are known from the older
regional data but are not recently published in Hungary: Descuriania
Sophia, Phytolacca Americana, Galanthus elwesi, Narcissus
poëticus. Open rock grasses have been formed on the
greenschist surfaces near Bozsok. For better understanding their
succession relations needs further research.
LÁSZLÓ
KRIZSÁN: LÁSZLÓ MAGYAR'S PROGRAMMEFOR EXPLORING SOUTH AMERICA
The study
presents schematically those results that were achieved by
Hungarian explorers in learning South America during the 18th
century. The programme of László Magyar compiled in 1846 for
exploration of the unknown areas of South America can be deemed
as a continuation of the Hungarian explorer's school. The
Hungarian Scientist Association has not granted its approval
because of financial reasons. Therefore, almost a half of century
later, foreign explorers have achieved those scientific results
László Magyar endeavoured to. The study publishes the
letter-perfect application written by László Magyar in this
issue handed to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences dated on 25th
June 1846 in Maldonado, Uruguay.