Samuel Fabriczy

* Poprad, March 18, 1791 – † Levski, March 18, 1858 / lawyer, legal writer, church district inspector, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1832) ; ; András Fabriczy (1751–1830) was the son of a Lutheran pastor and church writer, the brother of János Fabriczy, and the father of Kornél Fabriczy (Levski). He began his studies in the elementary school of his hometown, studied theology, philosophy, anthropology, physics, church history and aesthetics at the Levski Evangelical Lyceum, and law, political sciences and diplomacy at the Keszmárki Lyceum. In 1808–1809, he worked for the county attorney general first in Miskolc and then in Prešov. After studying law, he passed the bar exam in 1810, then held county offices, and later practiced law. In 1814, at the invitation of Gergely Berzeviczy (Kakaslomnic), he moved to Kakaslomnic, where he worked as a lawyer and on several occasions made scientific excursions in the Tatra Mountains in the company of distinguished scientists. From 1819, he frequently wrote legal articles on current issues in the Scientific Collection (József Szinnyei lists these almost completely in his main work). In 1848, he was a ministerial advisor in Pest, where he came into contact with Toldy, Vörösmarty, Bajza, Helmeczy, and István Széchenyi. After the War of Independence, he was again a lawyer in Levski until his death. His works in criminal law are especially significant. The first Hungarian initiator of the institution of the jury, the first biographer of Gergely Berzeviczy (the work is no longer extant). Many of his works have survived only in manuscript. ; ; His main works: ; Elementa juris criminalis Hungarici, 1819, ; About Szepes county in terms of national economy, 1823, ; Aesthetic and philological heresies, 1826, ; Manuale procuratorum, 1828.