Vilmos Frankói, Frankl

* Ürmény, 27 February 1843 – † Budapest, 20 November 1924 / historian, canon, titular bishop, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1873) ; ; His father, Sándor Frankl, was a manorial physician of Jewish origin, and had already converted to the Catholic faith. He completed his secondary schooling in Nagyszombat and the Benedictine Gymnasium in Esztergom. After studying theology and humanities in Pest and obtaining his doctorate, he was a teacher at the Nagyszombat Gymnasium from 1864, and at the Esztergom seminary from 1865, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He lived in Pest from 1871, and in 1874 he took the name Fraknói. From 1875 he was the guardian of the Hungarian Society of Archaeology, from 1879 he was the secretary general of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and from 1889 to 1892 he was its vice-president. In 1878 he was a canon of Oradea, in 1879 he was the abbot of Szekszárd and the national chief inspector of museums and libraries. In 1892 he became the bishop of Arbe. When in 1890 Pope Leo XIII opened the archives of the Papal States to researchers, Fraknói could not stay at home either, and spent the next two decades researching in the archives. His interests were mostly in the centuries-old history of relations between the Vatican and Hungary. He founded a Hungarian historical institute in Rome (1892), and later a Hungarian art house. The medieval, mainly 15th and partly 17th centuries, He worked on numerous topics of Hungarian history in the 19th century, primarily church and diplomatic history, in a long series of studies, using many foreign, mainly Italian, archival materials, from a conservative-clerical perspective. He edited the publication MTA Essays from the Field of History (1872–1878), the MTA yearbooks and newsletter (1878–1889) and the Hungarian Book Review from 1876 to 1879. He was a member of the Kisfaludy Society from 1903. He published volumes I–X of the Hungarian Parliamentary Memoirs (the last two with Árpád Károlyi), volumes I–IV of the Hungarian Document Archive in the Vatican (Monumenta Vaticana) (1884–1899), and Matthias' correspondence with the Roman Popes (1891). The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1870, a full member in 1873, a director in 1892, and an honorary member in 1907. His villa in Rome is now the building of the Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican ; ; His main works: ; A sketch of the cultural status of the Hungarian nation in the era of the first princes…, 1861, ; Péter Pázmány and his time I-III., 1868–1872, ; Domestic and foreign education in the 16th century, 1873, ; King Louis II and his court, 1878, ; The life of János Vitéz, Archbishop of Esztergom, 1879, ; The conspiracy of Martinovics and his associates, 1880, ; Péter Pázmány, 1886 (received the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Grand Prize for it), The Life of Tamás Erdődi Bakócz, 1889, ; The Life of King Matthias Hunyadi, 1890, ; The Age of the Hunyadis and the Jagiellonians (1440–1526) (In: The History of the Hungarian Nation. Edited by Sándor Szilágyi, IV.), 1896, ; István Werbőczy, 1899, ; Hungary's Ecclesiastical and Diplomatic Relations with the Holy See I–III., 1900–1903, ; Mihály Szilágyi. King Matthias' Uncle, 1913, ; The Life of Martinovics, 1921.