Joseph Podhradczky

* Udvard, 18 January 1795 – † Buda, 14 August 1870 / chamber accountant, historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1858) ; ; He completed his high school studies in Nitra, Nagyszombat and Buda. He studied philosophy in Nagyszombat, and in 1813 he was admitted to the Order of Saint Benedict in Pannonhalma. In 1814 he was dismissed from the Order and was assigned to the Hungarian Royal Court Chamber, where he had the opportunity to deal more thoroughly with the past of the free royal cities and the collection of relevant certificates. His work as a historian is characterized by a conservative aulic approach. In 1838 he published the Buda Chronicle. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a full member in 1834 and a full member in 1858. ; ; His main works: ; Two Original Hungarian Chronicles, 1833, ; The Life of Péter Pázmány, Archbishop of Esztergom, 1836, ; On Slavonia as a Constitutional Part of Hungary, 1837, ; The Roman Catholic Clergy Did Not Participate in the Legislation Enacted Against the Lutherans in 1525, 1843, ; The Life of Antal Verancsics, 1857, ; The Time, Age and Authenticity of King Béla's Anonymous Notary, 1861, ; The Founding Letter of the Abbey of Pannonhalma…, 1868.