Alexander Takáts

* Komárom, December 7, 1860 – † Budapest, December 21, 1932 / Piarist teacher, cultural historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1925) ; ; He started high school in Komárom and finished it in Bratislava. In 1880 he enrolled in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest, where he studied history, Hungarian and Latin. In the meantime, he joined the Piarist order and studied theology in Nitra for two years, then continued his studies in Budapest from 1884. In 1886 he was ordained a priest and appointed a teacher at the Nitra high school. He received his doctoral degree on March 19, 1887. In the 1890s, his hometown commissioned him to write the history of Komárom, and he was also relieved of his teaching duties when the Hungarian government sent him to Vienna to assist in the distribution of the archives of the court chamber. He worked on the selection of Hungarian material for five years, during which time he lived with the historian Lajos Thallóczy (1856–1916)79. He was the archivist of the House of Representatives from 1903 until his death. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1906 and a full member in 1925. As a historian, he primarily dealt with Hungarian history of the 16th–17th centuries and the Hungarian Reformation period. ; ; His main works: ; Komárom IV. Béla alatt, 1885, ; Régi magyar asszonyok, 1907/1914, ; A magyar pajalság megaláság, 1908, ; The Turkish-Hungarian Battles, 1913; Drawings from the Turkish World I-IV., 1915–1928; The Joy of Old Hungary, 1921; Old Times, Old People, 1922/1930; Hungarian Grandmothers I-II., 1926/1934; Poor Hungarians I-II., 1927; Hungarian Struggles I-II., 1929; Voices from the Past, 1930; Spy World in Hungary I-II., 1932.