Balogh Lajos - Köbölkuti Katalin (szerk.): Szenczy Imre emlékezete (Szombathely, 1999)

Az emlékülés előadásai - Contents. Angol nyelvű összefoglalók (Németh Pál)

philology, his secular works and those survived in manuscripts. As it appears from these facts Szenczy was an esteemed member of the Hungarian scientific life and the most important contemporary reviews were counting on his contribution. Chapter 4 gives account on the special bibliography on the lifework of Imre Szenczy.

The publication of this bibliography has pointed out the direction of the further research.

Péter Tóth: Imre Szenczy, a classical scholar

As of the end of the XVIII. century Szombathely became an episcopal see. Thanks to the literates working here a philological heritage of high- level was established and transmitted here. Also Imre Szenczy, born in 1798, teaching in Szombathely and Keszthely was one of those following this tradition. He displayed a significant activity in science and literature. His treaties and reviews were published in renowned periodicals and journals of the age, among other in Tudománytár (Scientific Review), Athenaeum, Figyelmező (Observer) and later in Magyar Szépirodalmi Szemle (Hungarian Literary Review) and Új Magyar Múzeum (New Hungarian Museum). Szenczy was remarkable for the translation of Latin classics. He was made known by the translation of „The Gallic Wars" by Julius Caesar. He was elected a member of Academy for his translation of Cicero’s works. His rendering of „Retorica” by Quintilianus into Hungarian has been an unrivalled masterpiece up to present day.

István Szabó: Imre Szenczy’s botanic activity in Keszthely

The Georgicon of Keszthely founded by György Festetics in 1797 made its impact on the history of the Hungarian botany in the next decades. Imre Szenczy who was teaching in Premontrei Gimnázium, a secondary school of the order of Premonstratensians of the town between 1821 and 1829 took also fancy to botanizing. He got into touch with the famous botanic teachers of Georgicon Peter Wierzbicki and Gyula Liebbald. He went deeply into the flora of the environs of Keszthely. We could familiarize ourselves by Szenczy with several plants from the moorland of Lake Balaton at Gyenes already perished in that region. Some of the species remained at the former Premontrei Gimnázium (secondary school) are originated from this collection. His species list of Keszthely completed together with Mihály Hutter and Peter Wierzbicki has remained only in duplicate. In this list he describes a lot of

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