Szotyori-Nagy Ágnes (szerk.): A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 2013-2015 (Budapest, 2015)
Tanulmányok - Fülöp Éva Mária: "Kedves Hazámfiai, mozdulni kell…" Egy elfeledett georgikoni: Angyalffy Mátyás András (1776-1839)
A forgotten teacher of Georgikon: Mátyás András Angyalffy (1776-1839) ÉVA MÁRIA FÜLÖP Mátyás András Angyalffy, a sadly forgotten footsoldier of the instruction and popularisation of agricultural knowledge, was born in Naszály in present-day Komárom-Esztergom County. The current study aims at giving a broader outline of his professional life and oeuvre with the aid of recent archival research and contemporary expert literature. Mátyás András, the son of Georgius Engelmon, a miller and a tenant of the Naszály demesne mill, was baptised on 14 February 1776 at the parish of the Eszterházy estate at Tata. It was probably the income from the mill that served as the financial basis for the studies of Mátyás András Angyalffy. A study on shepherding, published by Angyalffy at Sopron, attracted the attention of Count György Festetics, who employed Angyalffy as a teacher in the Georgikon in 1818. He mainly instructed trainee farm agents, but he probably also had a commission to teach farm labourers as well. For two terms he also took the post of Archon. In 1823 ho moved to Pest in order to devote himself solely to agricultural expert literature for the sake of improving Hungarian farming. He started the farming periodicals Mezei Gazdák’ Barátja in 1824 and Mezei Gazda in 1832. Apart from these short-lived publications his ‘Shepherd Catechism’ of 1830 gained a wider readership. His ‘General veterinary book...’, published in 1836, is justly regarded as the first expert veterinary work in Hungary. In 1832 Angyalffy was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Learned Society. He was also a member of several farming associations. Based on his ennoblement petition of 1830-31 some records related to his farming activities at Tata and Ekecs (Okoc, Slovakia), had survived. His life, which was full of struggles and financial difficulties but nevertheless greatly enriched Hungarian agricultural literaure ended in March 1839 at Pozsony. 104
