Joseph Lanyi

* Németpróna, June 29, 1868 – † Budapest, September 28, 1931 / bishop, church historian ; ; He graduated in theology from the University of Budapest and received his doctorate in 1894. From 1892 he was the archivist of the provost's office in Bánya-Biszterce, then the director of the Korpona public school, and in 1898–1899 he was a parish priest in Jánosgyarmat. Between 1900–1906 he was the Hungarian grammar teacher of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne. Between 1906–1919 he was a canon of Oradea, ordained bishop. After the Romanian occupation he settled in Budapest. ; ; His main works: ; On Church Painting, 1888, ; On the Italian and Vulgate, 1890, ; The Szyr, Khald and Arabic Diacritical Marks, 1891, ; The Punishment of Nebuchadnezzar, 1891, ; The Oath from a Canonical Perspective, 1894, ; The Importance of Religious and Moral Education in Our Time, 1896, ; The Emancipation of Women and the Position of the Catholic Church, 1904.