Dedek Crescens

* Nyitra, June 19, 1862 – † Esztergom, September 11, 1933 / historian, Roman Catholic priest, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1926) ; ; He completed his high school studies in his hometown. He studied philosophy and theology in Esztergom and the Emericanum in Bratislava, and finally at the Central Priest Training Institute in Pest. He was ordained a priest in Nagysurány in 1885. In 1887 he was appointed director of the Szent István Art Institute and Book Printing House. In 1896 he organized the literary history section of the millennium exhibition. In 1888 he founded the Catholic Church Bulletin, and in 1899 he was secretary of the Central Congress Committee. From 1891 he worked at the University Library, in 1913 he was a canon of Esztergom, and from 1930 he was archdeacon of Székesfehérvár. He edited the volume of Monumenta Ecclesiae Strigoniensis III. – 1321-1349 (1924). He was elected a member of the Saint Stephen Academy in 1915 and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1926. In the county monograph series edited by Samu Borovszky, he wrote the history of the counties of Nyitra (1899), Bratislava (1904) and Pest-Pilis-Solt (1907). ; ; His main works: ; A székely észtérellemének észletáta 1000–1526, 1885, ; A karthauziak Magyarországban, 1889, ; Lives of Saints, with special regard to Hungarian saints and those who have enjoyed great respect in Hungary since ancient times, as well as to the various patron saints I-II., 1900, A Thousand-Year Struggle for Our Thousand-Year Borders, 1912.