Charles George Rumy

* Igló, November 18, 1780 – † Esztergom, April 5, 1847 / law teacher, evangelical pastor, literary historian, agronomist ; ; His father, János György Rumy, was a well-known merchant from Igló. Between 1794 and 1799, he studied at the Evangelical Lyceum in Késmárk, where he taught the elements of the Hebrew language on behalf of his teachers. He was greatly influenced by the history and philosophy teacher János Genersich (1761–1823), who also encouraged him to pursue literary activity. In 1799, his parents sent him to the Reformed College in Debrecen to learn the Hungarian language. In 1800, he became a student at the University of Göttingen. In his free time, he made trips to the countryside and discovered several valuable manuscripts in the Wolfenbüttel library. From 1802 he published regularly in various professional journals. In 1803, he settled in Késmárk and taught mathematics and German philology at the local high school. From 1807, he took a position as an assistant teacher at the Teschen high school, but in the same year he became a teacher at the Lutheran high school in Igló. In 1808, he first taught in Levoča, then took a position as a Lutheran pastor in the German community in Szomolno. In 1810, he became a teacher of history and philosophy at the Lutheran high school in Sopron, and also taught Hungarian to the children of several German families. ; In 1813, Count György Festetich called him to Keszthely, where he taught economics and animal husbandry as a teacher at the Georgicon, and then took on chemistry and natural history. In 1816, he had a disagreement with the estate manager János Asbóth and had to leave his well-paying job because of this, and from October he worked as the director of the Karlóca Lyceum. Five years later, in 1821, he was elected vice-rector of the Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava, but three years later, in August 1824, he settled in Vienna and converted to the Catholic faith. As a result, from 1828 until his death, he was a teacher of Hungarian law and statistics at the seminary in Esztergom. He left his family essentially only his large library, and he had very few other possessions. Unfortunately, the library, which also contained valuable works, was largely lost. A catalogue of his library was published in 1851, listing 1941 books and about 150 manuscript works. However, little money was raised during the auction, so it is hardly surprising that Ignác Nagy wrote these ironic lines in the Hölgyfutár on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth: “He would have rather collected worn-out shoes or corns from the feet of famous dancers, so that his heirs would now have a nice income.” Rumy wrote for about 120 journals during his life, and some estimate the number of his articles to be tens of thousands, which seems an exaggeration, but he was undoubtedly a very prolific author. He also carried on an extensive correspondence (about 60 thousand letters), including many with Ferenc Kazinczy in German. Nearly 300 of his manuscript works have survived. The number of his books is also ; considerable. ; ; Main works: ; Populäres Lehrbuch der Oeconomie… I-II., 1808, ; Gemeinnützige ökonomisch-technische Belehrungen für ; Haushaltungen in Städten und auf dem Lande I-II., 1816, ; A newly discovered method of feeding horses without hay and with very little oats. Or how to save 9600 frt on the maintenance of 30 horses, i.e. 300 frt per horse per year, 1835.