Frigyes Dohnányi

* Szobotist, 13 June 1843 – † Bratislava, 10 November 1909 / high school teacher, musician, stenographer ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Bratislava and Nagyszombat. In 1868 he obtained a teaching certificate in quantitative natural sciences at the University of Vienna. He was a teacher at the Roman Catholic high school in Körmöcbánya, Bánya Biszterce, and in Bratislava from 1873 to 1905. Like the music-loving elite of Bratislava, chamber music evenings were held in his house for family and close friends. He played the cello and violin excellently, and his wife, Ottilia Szlabey, played the piano excellently. By a decree of the Minister of Religion and Public Education in 1887, he was also authorized to teach his own system of shorthand (panstenography). He made his own laboratory aids for teaching physics, which were awarded a medal for contributions at the Millennium Exhibition. In 1897–1898 (one year after the appearance of the first device), together with his fellow teacher, Károly Polikeit (Bratislava) and the director-chief physician of the Bratislava State Hospital, József Pantocsek (Nagyszombat), appointed in 1896, he set up one of the first Hungarian X-ray laboratories in the school's physics laboratory. He was an active member of the Bratislava Medical and Natural Sciences Association. In 1887–1890, he edited the journal Panstenographia in Bratislava. He was also interested in the question of creating a universal language, but he abandoned this plan when he heard about the birth of Esperanto. He was a good cellist; in 1874 he gave a concert in Bratislava with Ferenc Liszt. His son Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960) was a pianist and composer. He also taught Béla Bartók, who, on his advice, chose the Budapest Academy of Music instead of the Vienna Conservatory. Emil Kumlik (Bratislava) in 1937 Frigyes Dohnányi 1843-1909. The Life and Work of a Hungarian Shorthand Writer ; wrote his biography. ; ; His main works: ; Arends' Shorthand Applied to the Hungarian Language, 1873, ; Panstenographia (Universal Shorthand for All Languages), 1887.