Count Joseph Dessewffy
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* Krivány, 13 February 1771 – † Pest, 2 May 1843 / large landowner, publicist, politician, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1830) ; ; He completed his secondary education in Košice, Kolozsvár, and then in Pest. He studied mathematics, philosophy, aesthetics, natural science, economics, and diplomas at the University of Pest, and then studied law in Košice. He liked ancient Roman authors and enjoyed translating them. He began his career as a draftsman for court judges, but from 1795, leaving the official career, he was first the captain of the noble uprising in Szabolcs County, and from 1802, the parliamentary envoy of various counties (Sáros, Zemplén, Szabolcs), one of the leaders of the conservative aristocratic group. He worked hard for the rights of the Hungarian language, and for freedom of thought, speech and religion. In 1830 he got into a heated argument with István Széchenyi over his work entitled Credit (A „Hitel”cz. munka taglalatja, 1831). He participated in the drafting of the statutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In Košice he started the journal Felső Magyar Országi Minerva, in which he published primarily economic, historical and linguistic studies, as well as poems.