Acta Papensia 2020. - A Pápai Református Gyűjtemények Közleményei 20. évfolyam (Pápa, 2020)
2020 / 1-2. szám
-= MŰHELY s-Acta Papensia XX (2020) 1-2. SZÁM in 1825,1830 and in 1832. He gave up acting as a politician in 1833 and began farming. The author uses a wide range of archivalia (the correspondence of Antal Deák, papers of the Deak and other families’, county documents etc.) to show how he succeeded in — following the death of Antal Deák senior (1808) — acquitting the large amount of debt which he inherited after becoming the head of the family, how he could develop the estate, and how he managed to share the income with three of his siblings equally. The farm was run by a farm manager and Antal Deák controlled his and other employees’ work. From 1825 he involved his younger brother, Ferenc Deák into this controlling job. From 1842 it was his younger brother who took control on farming, with the help of his brother-in-law, József Oszterhueber, in his absence. The study emphasizes that sheep farming (wool selling), sales of wine and corn were the most important branches of the whole farm. Their income reached 3600 silver florins in 1835 and they became one of the wealthiest medium landowners in county Zala. This financial independence helped Ferenc Deák to act as an opponent politician in the reform era. V------------------------------<• 40 =-
