Mihaly Alajos Trnka

* Vágdebrőd, July 19, 1744. 198 – † Pest, December 8, 1821. / Jesuit monk, university professor ; ; He entered the Jesuit order in Komárom in 1762. In 1765 he worked as a home tutor in Győr, in 1766 he taught grammar in Prešov. In 1767–1768 he studied philosophy at the Jesuit academy in Košice, in 1769–1771 he taught grammar in Nagyszombat. In 1772–1773 he was a home tutor in Graz, where he heard the news of the dissolution of the Jesuit order. At that time he entered the Pázmáneum in Vienna and studied theology at the university. In 1777 he became a doctor of theology and was ordained a priest and became a priest of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. From 1787 he taught history at the Theological Academy of Pécs, and in 1796 he became a professor at the University of Pest, where he worked in the history department until 1809. His lectures were not published, his manuscripts are kept in the Széchényi Library in Budapest. The most extensive is his history of Hungary up to the Battle of Mohács in 1526. In his work Historia Literaria Hungarorum he deals with the personalities and institutions (schools, printing presses, libraries, etc.) of Hungarian literature and culture up to and including the 17th century.