Privately owned books

HAS Research Centre for the Humanities, Lendület (“Momentum”) Western Hungarian Literature 1770–1820 Research Group, MOKKA Association, MOKKA-R Division and the HAS Book Historical Working Committee will hold a joint conference on March 6, 2020 in Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1 Arany János Street, H-1051 Budapest). Opening lecture of the conference will be delivered by István Monok, Director-General of the library. NSZL staff member and research fellow Kornélia Vas-Tóth will present a lecture under the title Ferenc Széchényi’s main library. Market pulp fiction at the service of the national language and reading (1770–1820).

Conference lectures will provide an overview of book production, book distribution, the history of reading, as well as the readings of the gentry and the lower priesthood, and the collections owned by magnates, scholars and men of letters.

 

Program

9.00–9.30 István Monok (Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Opening lecture

Book production, book distribution, history of reading
Chairman: István Monok

9.35–10.00 Olga Granasztói (MTA-DE Classical Hungarian Literary Textology Research Group): European book distribution networks, German merchants, Hungarian book consumers in the age of Joseph II. New approaches in the research of book trade in Bratislava, Pest-Buda and Vienna

10.00–10.25 Kornélia Vas-Tóth (NSZL): Ferenc Széchényi’s main library. Market pulp fiction at the service of the national language and reading (1770–1820)

10.25–10.50 Attila Verók (Eszterházy Károly University): Western Hungary versus Eastern Hungary? Book production in the largest diocese of the country. (1755–1826)

10.50–11.10 Debate, comments

11.10–11.25 Break

Readings of the gentry and the proctors
Chairman: Dániel Bárth

11.25–11.50 József Horváth (Dr. Kovács Pál Library and Community Space): Additions to the book culture of the Roman Catholic lower priesthood of the Diocese of Győr (Book bequests of parish priests in villages and market towns, 1770–1820)

11.50–12.15 Ádám Hegyi (University of Szeged): How will a private library become a community library? Examples of pastor libraries of two Reformed dioceses in the Southern Land at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries

12.15–12.40 Beáta Simon (Zala County Archives of the National Archives of Hungary): Private libraries of the gentry in 18th-century Zala, based on inheritance inventories

12.40–13.00 Debate, comments

Baronial collections
Chairman: Réka Lengyel

14.00–14.25 László Czeglédi (Eszterházy Károly University): Book collectors, patrons in the library of Zólyomradvány

14.25–14.50 Ádám Szabó (Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): A baronial scholarly library: the Teleki collection

14.50–15.10 Debate, comments

Collections of scholars and men of letters
Chairman: László Szelestei Nagy

15.10–15.35 Edina Zvara (University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and Human Information Science Department): Manuscripts in the library of Demeter Görög (1760–1833)

15.35–16.00 Etelka Doncsecz (MTA-DE Classical Hungarian Literary Textology Research Group): Ferenc Verseghy’s libraries

16.00–16.10 Break

16.10–16.35 Ibolya Viola-Bakonyi (Csokonai Reformed High School, Csurgó): Recent data to the topic of book culture in Somogy mansions

16.35–17.00 Ágnes Dóbék (HAS Research Centre for the Humanities, Lendület (“Momentum”) Western Hungarian Literature 1770–1820 Research Group): Ignác Sauttersheim’s books

Summaries of the presentations (in Hungarian)