Marczibányi Márton (1785–1834) könyvtárai

Abstract

Research has not dealt with the life and work of Márton Marczibányi, the main reason being the lack of resources due to the destruction of the Marczibányi family archive in 1945. He completed his higher education at the Royal Academy in Győr. After the death of his uncle, István Marczibányi, in 1810, he inherited the family estates in Tornya (Turnu, Romania) and Kamenica (Sremska Kamenica, Serbia) in Csanád county, as the heir of the faith commission. In 1810, he established a model estate (établissement) in Kamenica and raised the traditional viticulture of Syrmia to a high level. There is no exact source about his travels abroad, it is assumed that he stayed in Paris and Rome. The work of Márton Marczibányi, who played an outstanding role in the history of Hungarian agriculture, remained in the background behind his uncle, István Marczibányi, patron and art collector. The aim of my study is to present two of his libraries to shade the negative image of Márton Marczibányi, that he was greedy and, lacking a noble feeling, only desired gold and silver. Two sources are available for the books he owned: 1. the 687-item library catalog recorded in the Kamenica castle in January 1835, after the death of Márton Marczibányi, preserved in the Manuscript Deparment of the National Széchényi Library; 2. a list of 400 books donated by his son Livius from the library of his palace in Pest to the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.