Egy Mártonffy-portré Cserey Farkas szerint
A Portrait of Mártonffy According to Farkas Cserey

Summary/Abstract: This study has the aim of examining Cserey’s change of opinion as a result of his personal experience with the bishop Mártonffy. His letters written to the well-known grammatist and writer Ferenc Kazinczy can be tracked down as the evidences of his very subjective point of view when characterizing. This method of presenting Mártonffy to Kazinczy has no effect at all on the way this latter thinks of the bishop. As a matter of fact, the opposite point of view seems to live on in Kazinczy’s remembrance. Mártonffy is a person in Cserey’s mind, who takes abuse of his power, spends the money of the Church for his purposes, and hinders the development of the cultural life in Transylvania. In the process of searching for an answer we found evidences which show us a positive picture of the same person. Still Cserey’s presentation about Mártonffy can be taken as a true one, because it reflects his personal confrontation with authority and power in the person of József Mártonffy.

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