Count Joseph Révay

* Tajnasári, October 20, 1902 – † Gyömrő, April 19, 1945 / philosopher, university professor, national ice hockey player ; ; István Révay's younger brother. He graduated from the Érsekújvár Gymnasium in 1920. His tutor and good friend was Nándor Várkonyi (Nyitra). He started out as a painter, then studied philosophy, aesthetics and pedagogy at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest between 1932 and 1936. In the 1920s, he participated in several European competitions as a member of the Hungarian national ice hockey team, and was also a member of the field hockey team. He began his writing career at the magazine Századunk. In 1940, he was qualified as a private teacher. From 1941 to 1944, he was a private tutor in moral philosophy at the University of Budapest. As a philosopher, he dealt with epistemology and ethics, and was characterized by an exaltation free from illusions. In the second half of the 1930s, he also published historical and sociographic articles. Between 1939 and 1945, he was the secretary of the Hungarian Philosophical Society, and between 1940 and 1944, he was the editor of the society's journal, the Atheneum. He was visiting his estate in Gyömrő when the local communist police arrested him, tortured him, and then shot him dead together with a friend. ; ; His main works: ; The Antinomy of Knowledge in Kant, 1936, ; The Dialectic of Morality, 1940, ; The Nobles of Tajná. Data for a historical monograph of a highland village and a social stratum, 1942, ; On understanding others: essays, studies, Kisnemesek Tajnán: Data for a historical monograph of a highland village and a social stratum (Selections, ed. Tamás Gusztáv Filep, the introductory study was written by László Perecz), 1999.