Joseph Ponori Thewrewk

* Déva, 20 February 1793 – † Pest, 4 November 1870 / writer, antiquarian collector, linguist ; ; Three sons (Emil Ponori Thewrewk, Árpád Ponori Thewrewk and Aurél Török) were born in Bratislava. He completed his secondary education at the ref. gymnasium in Szászváros. He then obtained a teaching diploma and taught at the gymnasium in Szászváros between 1813 and 1817. From 1817 he was a royal notary in Târgu Mureș. In 1820 he passed the bar exam and then moved to Pest to practice law there. He was a famous art collector, but his house was often broken into and valuable objects were stolen from him. For this reason, he thought it better to move to Bratislava and settled there in the second half of the 1820s. In 1828, he traveled to Hungary with a painter and visited Kazinczy, under whose influence he joined the language reformers and began to collect relics of Hungarian literature, history and art. His linguistic creation is the expression honvéd and úrbér. In 1845, he edited the magazine Hírnök for a short time, but the magazine was discontinued. He lost his wife, Magdolná Ax, and raised his three minor children alone. ; His family tragedy was compounded by a fire that burned down a significant part of his collected paintings. In 1852, he moved back to Pest and lived only for literature and art collecting. His political views were conservative, he published collections of epigrams and polemics attacking representatives of progressive political and literary aspirations, and articles defending the institution of censorship, and He published pamphlets slandering the War of Independence, as well as a large number of occasional poems praising individual members of the Habsburg House, the aristocracy, and the clergy. He discovered the 16th-century linguistic monument called the Thewrewk Codex. He also wrote poems and plays. ; ; His main works: ; Freedom of the Press and Censorship, 1833, ; A Mirror of the Beret for the New Hungarians, 1833, ; An Appendix to the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49, 1849, ; Hungarian Language Treasures, 1858, Székely Crown, 1863.