Tomb of Stephen Tamasko

István Tamaskó (Bratislava, February 15, 1801 – Bratislava, January 26, 1881) was an orientalist, philologist, literary translator and Sanskritologist, and a teacher at the Lutheran Lyceum. ; Born to bourgeois parents, he studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava. In 1822, he taught the first grammar class there as a substitute teacher for six months. Then, in order to continue his theological studies, he enrolled in the Protestant Theological Faculty in Vienna, which had just opened. After a year and a half of stay there, he returned to his homeland and was a home tutor for several years. In the meantime, the government allowed Protestant theologians to visit foreign universities. With the support of the Lutheran Church in Bratislava, Tamáskó went to Göttingen, where he studied Sanskrit from Ewald and Arabic from Teschen. After a two-year stay there, he returned to his homeland. However, since the chair at the Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava, which Tamáskó had committed himself to, was not vacant, he took up the position of principal and teacher at the Bazin Higher Civil School, where he worked until 1838. In that year, the Lutheran Church-Congregation in Bratislava invited him to the Lyceum as a teacher of the syntax department. When it was organized according to the Thun system, he taught German in the upper gymnasium and taught religious education to Protestant students in the upper classes of the city's real school. Seeing the great aversion that the young students had to learning German in the 1850s, Tamáskó seized the opportunity, and in 1862 the Church-Congregation offered him to exchange his Lyceum chair for one of the girls' schools. Thus she became a teacher at a girls' school, but she also kept her job at the real school. She spent ten years as a girls' teacher, then in 1872 the church retired her. She was one of the prominent orientalists of our country and a man of classical education. She translated the Hitópadésa and the Dhammapadam into Hungarian, but both works remained in manuscript. ; Article in the Journal of the Bratislava branch of the Catholic Church (1860. Hymni aliquot Vedici e textu potissimum sanscritico Boethlingki Lassenii legibus metricis in latinum translati). ; ; Works: ; - De causis linguae Sancritae. Dissertation. Posonii, 1831. ; - German language book... for the use of Latin and civil schools. U. there, 1844. ; - Guide to world history narratives. U. there, 1845. ; - His Royal Highness Archduke Joseph of Hungary, Palatine of the Office of the 50th Anniversary of the Celebration of the Branch of the College of the University of Budapest, 1846. (Sanskrit verse). ; - Danielis Bersenyi poetae Ecclogae. Budapest, 1880. (Reference P. Diary 181. no.). ; - The "Szózat" in Latin. Bratislava, 1880. ; ; Several of his works remain in manuscript.