Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1959-09-01 / 9. szám
4 FRATERNITY highest character, both Protestant and Catholic clergymen, artists, scientists and aristocrats. They organized themselves into a Provincial Grand Lodge in 1781. NATIONAL GRAND LODGE FORMED On April 22, 1781, the Provincial Grand Lodges of Bohemia, Hungary, Siebenbürgen and Austria met and formed a National Grand Lodge of the Austrian States, with Count Dietrichstein as Grand Master. “The Grand Lodge of Germany, in Berlin, did not approve of this independent spirit and dispatched Brother Sudthausen to them, to induce the brethren to be better affected towards her, but he succeeded only in Dietrichstein being regarded as merely a Provincial Grand Master.” However, in 1785, the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Austrian States declared its independence. WORK HALTED In 1791 the Austrian Government suppressed Masonry, and Hungarian Lodges were ordered to dissolve. Masonry then ceased to work there for a period of over 60 years. LIBERAL ERA After the Austro-Prussian war, a liberal era commenced. Many Hungarian patriots who became members of the Craft in foreign countries began to establish new Lodges. In 1861, St. Etienne Lodge was founded by Counts Alexander Teleki, Karolyi and Csaky, Paul Almassy and others, but it was quickly closed. In October, 1868, Lodge “Unity” was founded at Budapest under an English charter, with the approval of the government, and in 1869 other Lodges were established in Temesvár, Oedenburg, Baja, Pressburg, Budapest and Arad. On January 30, 1870, these seven Lodges formed “The St. John’s Grand Lodge of Hungary”, strengthened in the same year by a new Lodge in Szegedin. The “Scots” degrees were introduced in Hungary in 1869, where the Lodge of Matthias Corvinus was established under the auspices of the Grand Orient of France; other Lodges for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite were founded in Kaschau, W Trschetz, Oravisza, Arad and other cities. These Lodges formed the Grand Orient of Hungary in November, 1871.
