Tivadar Botka

* Kisendréd, 6 July 1802 – † Kisvezekény, 6 January 1885 / historian, county notary, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He completed his school studies in Léva, Nagyszombat and Pest. He obtained his law degree in 1821 and from then on he was in county service. He was a chief justice, chief prosecutor, county notary, parliamentary envoy, and later, between 1861 and 1872, a member of the House of Representatives. In addition to his official duties, he primarily dealt with the history of local governments and the organization of the old Hungarian counties. He was the founder and president of the Toldy Circle in Bratislava (1874), and one of the founders of the Hungarian Historical Society (1867). Tivadar Botka was the first to raise the idea of a thousand-year national holiday. He became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1847, a full member in 1872, and an honorary member in 1877. ; ; His main works: ; Notitia diplomatica veteris constitutionis comitatuum ; praecipue anecdote vicecomitum et curiali instituto illustrata, 1831, ; Some lesser-known public law subjects and entrenched misconceptions from the 1843–44 parliamentary period clarified, 1844, ; Sketches from the past of county constitutional life. I-II., ; 1862, Legal historical studies on the organization of Hungarian counties, 1865, Kisfaludy Lipthay Imre, the memoir of the vice-governor of Bars and Hont counties and the national envoy for Turkish affairs, revised for the study of county public life in the 17th century, 1867, ; On the necessary transfer of the central seat of Bars County from Aranyos-Marót to Léva, 1870; Máté Csák Trentsini and his contemporaries, 1874, Millenarium, or the thousand-year turn of Hungarian statehood from 884 to 1884, 1878.