Danczi Villebald Joseph

* Kürt, October 16, 1910 – † Győr, December 21, 1977 / Benedictine priest, linguist, school principal ; ; He finished elementary school in his native village, and from 1923 to 1931 he was a student at the Érsekújvár State Gymnasium. In 1931 he entered the Order of Saint Benedict in Pannonhalma. Between 1932 and 1936 he studied theology at the Charles University in Prague, and was then ordained a priest. In 1936–1938 he also obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian and Czech/Slovak at the University of Bratislava, and in 1939 he was awarded a doctorate in Hungarian and Slavic linguistics at the Budapest University of Science and Technology based on his dissertation entitled The Phonetics, Phonetics and Phonological Examination of the Kürt Dialect. In 1941, he also conducted ethnographic collections in his native village. From 1941, he was a teacher at the Benedictine Gymnasium in Pannonhalma, and from 1947 at the college there. In 1943, he collected farm names with his students in the surrounding villages. In 1945, thanks to his knowledge of Russian, he managed to protect the people of Pannonhalma from the atrocities of the Soviet military. When the dissolution of the monastic orders began in 1947, he took up parish service in Balatonendréd, then settled in Győr in 1952 and taught Russian in various schools until 1962. From 1963 to 1973, he was a teacher and then director of the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine Gymnasium in Győr. In addition to his teaching and pastoral work, he primarily dealt with linguistics, translation and the history of Győr. ; ; His main works: ; Folk plant names from Kürt, 1943, ; Textual guide to the Kürt dialect, 1956, ; On the copy of Lomonosov's Rhetoric found in Hungary (in Russian), 1962.