Imre Spisák

* Léva, April 9, 1811 – † Budapest, January 9, 1875 / classical philologist, Piarist monk, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1858) ; ; entered the Piarist order in 1826. He studied philosophy in Vácott in 1830–1831, and obtained a doctorate in humanities at the University of Pest in 1831. He studied theology in Nyitra in 1832 and in Szentgyörgy in 1833. He was ordained a priest in 1834. From 1833 he taught in Kisszeben, and from 1838 to 1842 in Buda. Between 1842 and 1849 he was the tutor of the sons of the Baron Vécsey family and lived alternately in Vienna and in Sárköz in Satu Mare County. In the latter place he began his fight against excessive consumption of pálinka: he founded so-called temperance societies. In 1849–1869 he was a Greek and Latin teacher at the Piarist Gymnasium in Pest, and from 1862 he was its director. From 1865 he also taught Roman philology at the University of Pest, and from 1870 he taught classical philology as a public regular teacher. He dealt with issues of music education for young people, wrote textbooks, and from the royalties of his literary works ; had a school built in Léván. ; ; His main works: ; Elementary Hellenic Grammar, 1850, ; Elementary Latin Grammar, 1850, ; On the elevation, inclination and prolongation of tones in the Greek language, 1859/60, ; On the advantages of old classical literature in gymnasiums (academic chair), 1860, ; On the ancient pronunciation of Greek vowels and diphthongs, 1870.