Novák László Ferenc: A „Mező Berényi Evang tótajkú egyházban létező” id. Kisjeszeni Jeszenszky Károly lelkipásztor számadáskönyve 1848-1890 - Chronica Bekesiensis 4. (Békéscsaba, 2011)
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THE REGISTRATION BOOK OF PASTOR KÁROLY KISJES2ENI JESZENSZKY SEN. „EXISTING IN THE EVANGELICAL LOWLAND SLOVAK LANGUAGE CHURCH OF MEZŐ BERÉNY” (1848-1890) RESUME Károly Kisjeszeni Jeszenszky sen. was born in Liliomos (Lality) located in Bács-Bodrog County in 1815. His father was from Kisjeszen, her mother Katalin Jeszenszky from Nagyjeszen by origin. He attended his primary schools in his birthplace, then learned in Ujverbász in a Latin school. In Mezőberény he went to the Evangelical decanal secondary grammar school established in 1802, then spent four years at the Evangelical college of Selmecbánya, continuing his studies in Pozsony for three years. In years 1938-1839 he was a student of the university of Jena. He was ordained Evangelical minister in Aszód in 1839. He was invited by the church council of Mezőberény in 1840 and became the probationer of the (Slovak) Evangelical Church located in district II. He was elected a pastor in December of 1843, holding this office until 1890. He was buried in Mezőberény in 1898. Market-town Mezőberény is located in Békés County. The area surrounded by the rivers of the Körös-Maros-Tisza is the most fertile plain region of Hungary. Under the Turkish rule in the 16—17th centuries this land became almost completely depopulated. After the expulsion of the Turks Békés got into the possession of János György Harruckern in 1717 Since the Hungarian inhabitants only slowly started to live again the devastated land, the landowner decided to solve the problem with a mass recolonisation: this was the time when arrived in the region Germans from Germany and Slavs (Slovaks) from Upper-Hungary. Mezőberény was populated by a great number of Slavic people in 1723. Germans came in majority from Württemberg in 1725 but sporadically from Harta and Vadkert also. The Hungarian population were coming from the surrounding Hungarian villages in 1727 302
