Antal Reviczky

* Sátoraljaújhely, 17 January 1723 – † Buda, 15 December 1781 / Jesuit priest, ; natural scientist, philosopher and theologian ; ; joined the Society of Jesus in 1738. He studied social sciences in Szakolca in 1741, philosophy at the university in Nagyszombat in 1742–1744, and mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1748–1749. He studied theology in Nagyszombat between 1750–1753, and was then inaugurated as a doctor of philosophy and theology. He began his teaching career in Passau in 1745, and taught at the Bratislava gymnasium in 1746–1747. He was a professor at the University of Nagyszombat in 1755–1759. From 1760 he lived in Buda, where he served as abbot of the monastery, and then, after the abolition of the Jesuit order, as apostolic notary and parish priest. In the last years of his life, he was the Hungarian field priest and the abbot of the monastery named after the Savior. In addition to his theological works, his textbooks are primarily important, in which he dealt with physics, mathematics, astronomy and especially botany (plant anatomy, plant morphology and plant physiology). ; ; His main works: ; Universae matheseos brevis institutio I-III., 1752–1753, ; Elementa philosophiae rationalis seu logica in usum auditorum conscripta, 1757, ; Elementa philosophiae seu metaphysica in usum auditorum conscripta, 1757, ; Elementa philosophiae naturalis I–II., 1757–1758, ; Tentamen physicum ex praelectionibus..., 1758, ; Astronomiae physicae juxta Newtoni principia breviarium methodo scholactica ad usum studiosae juventutis, 1760.