Majorossy Judit (szerk.): A Ferenczy Múzeum Évkönyve 2014 - Studia Comitatensia 33., Új Folyam 1. (Szentendre, 2014)
Szentendre. Adalékok a Pajor család, a Pajor-kúria és a Ferenczy-család történetéhez - Martos Gábor: Két talált kép „megtisztítása”. Ferenczy Valér ismeretlen nagybányai művei egy magyarországi magángyűjteményből
Studia Comitatensia 2014 — Yearbook of the Ferenczy Museum - New Series 1 - English Summaries Márton Szilágyi A Strange Marriage in Szentendre (Caspar Pajor’s Conflicts in the Light of an Archival Source) Caspar Pajor (1766/1767 - before 29 May 1840) - who after his marriage owned the mansion that is the present building of the Ferenczy Museum — was a significant person in the early history of the Hungarian press being one of the editors of the Hungarian journal entitled Uránia (1794-1795). Pajor settled in Szentendre in 1797 where he practised as a physician and married to Ilona Lovcsanszky in 1799. This marriage had legal consequences as the relatives charged him due to different reasons, and some of the documents prepared for the trial are preserved until today in the archives of County Pest. By the help of that documentation one can detect several aspects of the legal case and its background. The present study analyzes the conflict between Pajor and his wife’s family. In the source editions part of the present volume the author also published the main document of the investigation, namely the original Latin text of Pajor’s memorial in which he himself answered in details to all the charges against him. His apology was translated and published in Hungarian, too. The main source of the conflict was that the Hungarian Protestant Pajor married a Serbian Orthodox orphan whose family was among the richest ones in Szentendre at that time still dominated by the Serbian population. As a consequence of this confessional and ethnic difference between the couple, the wife’s Serbian kinship tried to eliminate the relationship and annul the marriage by various charges. Among many others, Pajor was accused that as a physician he collaborated in the murder Ilona Lovcsanszky’s mother and that he had raped and then forced Ilona to marry him. He, however, denied and refuted all these charges partially also generated by the wealth he acquired through this marriage, and he even managed (unfortunately there are no available sources from which we could tell how) that finally in 1799 the Serbian relatives retracted the accusation. This single case is a telling example of those conflicts caused by inter-confessional marriages, but it also clearly demonstrates that such confrontations could be turned into a peaceful co-operation. From Pajor’s marriage six children were born, two sons later became the officials of County Pest, one of them even reached a high career, but there are no signs of later quarrels or hostility with the Serbian relatives. The presented case study attempts to prepare a synthesis about the co-operation and co-habitation of an ethnically and confessionally mixed community in a provincial town, such as Szentendre. 259
