The Konkoly-Thege family donated their entire collection of documents to the Hungarian National Archives.

He donated the entire archive of the Konkoly-Thege family to the Hungarian National Archives. The Konkoly-Thege family, which has belonged to Hungarian noble families since the 13th century, handed over the documents to the institution on September 22.

The representatives of the family have held important positions for centuries, it is enough to single out Miklós Konkoly-Thege, the founder of the csillagda in Ógyalla, composer, member of parliament. The collection consists of 850 original, interconnected documents covering the history of the family over eight centuries, six hundred dealing with the Konkoly-Thege family, two hundred with related families, and fifty with families who are strangers to them.

The documents dr. It was compiled by Balázs Konkoly-Thege, and the most significant part of the material was written in the 14th-15th century before the Battle of Mohács. are documents from the 19th century, six of which are in the collection.

Csaba Szabó, the director general of the institution, said that there was no precedent for receiving a complete Hungarian noble family archive as a gift in the past decades. He added that the Hungarian National Archives will preserve the documents with the greatest respect and care, just like its oldest document, the Veszprém Valley privilege letter dated 1109, and ensures that the documents will preserve the memory of the noble family even after 1,000 years.

The owner, Miklós Konkoly-Thege, who lives in Norway, brought the documents home at his own expense. At the time of the handover, he said that part of the collection was lost during house searches in the 1950s, but his father fled the documents to Norway in 1956 after three years of forced labor in Recki. The collection was completed with the help of relatives who emigrated in the 1960s. The representative of the family said that it was a joint decision of the family to send the digitized material home and place it "where it belongs" under dignified conditions.

The received documents will be presented on January 22, 2022, the day of Hungarian culture, at the Hungarian workshop held in the Hungarian National Archives.

Source: aelvidek.ma

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