Ottokar Prohaszka

* Nyitra, October 10, 1858 – † Budapest, April 2, 1927. Catholic bishop, church writer, politician, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (corresponding: 1909, full: 1920) ; ; His Moravian father, Prochaska Domokos (1817–1879), settled in Hungary as a military officer. Ottokár was three years old when he moved to Rózsahegy. In 1866, the family moved to Losonc, so the 8-year-old boy began his schooling there. In 1869–1871, he studied at the Piarist Gymnasium in Nyitra, and in 1871–1873, at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Kalocsa. From 1873, he became a student at the minor seminary in Esztergom and graduated there in 1875. He completed his theological studies in Rome and began his pastoral ministry at the parish of Esztergom in 1882. He began his journalistic activity during his years in Esztergom, and later became fascinated by politics. He was one of the founders of the Catholic People's Party and became the leader of the Christian socialist movement in Hungary. From 1904 he was a professor of dogmatics at the University of Budapest. From 1905 he was the bishop of Székesfehérvár. In 1916 he proposed rewarding those who fought in the war with land. In 1919 he was the leader of the Székesfehérvár movement. In 1920–1922 he was a member of parliament and then the chairman of the Christian National Union party. In his theological works he combined traditional neo-Thomism with the irrational elements of Bergsonism, which provoked criticism from the church. He was preaching from the pulpit when he suffered a stroke and died. His entire works were published in 25 volumes in 1928–1929 by the St. Stephen Society, edited by the Piarist professor of dogmatics Antal Schütz (1880–1953). ; ; His main works: ; Modern Catholicism, 1907, ; Culture and Terror, 1918, ; New Reflections, 1929, ; Soliloquia (diary), 1929.