Gabor Kolinovics

* Nagysenkoc, March 24, 1689 – † Modor, December 22, 1770 / historian, notary public ; ; In 1703, he fled with his family of minor nobility to nearby Modor from the Kurucs and only returned to Nagysenkoc in 1707. He completed his high school studies in Szentgyörgy, Modor and Bratislava, and studied philosophy in Nagyszombat. In 1715, he joined the Piarist order, spent his novice years in Privigye, but due to his constant illness, he left the order in 1716 and returned to his native village. He took a position as a clerk next to the director of the Pálffy estates and served first in Bajmoc and then in Vöröskő, in the latter place as a manorial court lawyer. After that, he worked as a clerk for the county of Bratislava and recorded the minutes of 58 county assemblies, while collecting material for his later historical works. After his father's death, he farmed his Nagysenkoc estate as a married man from 1723, and from 1730 he was a county sworn and royal charter notary. He also served as secretary to Count József Eszterházy. In the last decade and a half of his life, he exclusively pursued historical and archaeological studies in his native village. His historical works were published by his countryman, Márton György Kovachich. Most of his works remained in manuscript. Among these, the most important are his commentaries on the Rákóczi Revolution, which are in a copy in the manuscript collection of the Budapest University Library under the title: Commentariorum de rebus Ungaricis libri XIII. It is an important source, but strongly pro-Habsburg. This is somewhat complemented by the Fulcrum Commentariorum de rebus Ungaricis. There is also a manuscript of Vitarum belliducum Ungariae virtute et fortuna illustrium, as well as a detailed history of the Seven Years' War in letters. His last work is the Biennium Societati Jesu ter infelix. He wrote these works on about 2060 sheets, very beautifully, in his own hand, and, together with his collections and his letter book, he compiled them into 13 volumes. He bequeathed all his manuscripts to the Benedictines of Pannonhalma. When the order was abolished, during the reign of Joseph II, his manuscripts were taken to the University Library in Pest, and after the order was restored, the Benedictines received the manuscripts again. ; ; His main works: ; Posthuma memoria Josephi Eszterházy, Dalmatiae, Croatiae et Sclavoniae proregis, 1754, ; Chronicon militaris ordinis equitum templariorum (the title page features a copper-engraved portrait of Kolinovics, based on an oil painting preserved in Pannonhalma), 1789, ; Nova Ungiae Periodus, 1790.