Századok – 2013
A MAGYAR TÖRTÉNELMI TÁRSULAT 2012. ÉVI VÁNDORGYŰLÉSE - Kurucz György: Göttingentől Keszthelyig: Asbóth János (1768-1823) tanári és uradalmi tiszti tevékenysége, 1801-1818 IV/1031
1060 KURUCZ GYÖRGY (1755-1819) in 1801 to take the post of Professor of Economics in the first Hungarian agricultural college, Georgikon, founded hy Festetics in 1797. It was Asbóth who worked out a new curriculum for the College as well as implementing the principal ideas of rational husbandry devised by his predecessor Ferenc Pethe (1763-1832) on the basis of the practice of contemporary English farming. Asbóth soon became instrumental in working out several other projects of extending the different fields of practical training in Keszthely and substantially contributed to the promotion of the College abroad by nurturing relations with foreign learned societies, primarily in Germany. He had a crucial influence on contemporary educational and cultural life in Keszthely, and it was him who finalized a project of attempting to transform the centre of the Festetics estates into a hub of literary life in Western Hungary as provided hy Count Festetics in the late 1810s.
