Ottokar Prohaska ( Slovak. Ottokár Prohászka , Hungarian. Prohászka Ottokár ; October 10, 1858 , Nitra , Austrian Empire , now Slovakia - April 2, 1927 , Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary ) - Hungarian religious figure, theologian Roman Catholic Church , Bishop of Székesfehérvár from 1905 to 1927. A prominent representative of the clerical reaction, one of the pillars of the fascist regime of Miklos Horthy .
| Ottokar Prohaska | |
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| Slovak Ottokár Prohászka , Hung. Prohászka Ottokár | |
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| Date of Birth | October 10, 1858 |
| Place of Birth | Nitra , Austrian Empire |
| Date of death | April 2, 1927 (68 years) |
| Place of death | Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Occupation | religious leader, theologian, bishop |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 2009 ) |
Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1909, active member since 1920. In 1926, adopted in the literary Society of Kisfaludi.
Biography
Born in a Czech family living in Moravia , later Germanized . Childhood was spent in Bratislava , Lucenets and Ružomberok . From 1882 he was a priest in Esztergom . He was the editor of the Hungarian Zion ( Magyar Sion ) (1887-1904) and Esztergom ( Esztergom ) newspapers (1895-1904). Since 1904 he taught theology.
Actively promoted the ideas of Hungarian nationalism (Hungarism) and " Christian socialism "; sometimes considered one of the first ideologues of clerical fascism . Opponent of capitalism , liberalism and worker socialism, as well as any form of manifestation of modernism , because of which he fiercely criticized the leading literary magazine “West” ( Nyugat ) and its editor Endre Adi . He was the founder, inspirer and ideologist of the Catholic People’s Party and a number of short-lived parties that replaced it (Christian Social People’s Party, Christian Social Economic Party, Christian Party of National Unity). One of the leaders of the counter-revolutionary white forces that brought down the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. Member of the parliamentary parliament in 1920-1922.
Together with the Jesuit theologian, White Banga, Prohaska was one of the main preachers in Hungarian Catholic circles of anti-Semitism (he hated the Jews, who in his opinion were the personification of modernism and capitalism and inextricably linked). Since 1918, demanded the adoption of anti-Semitic legislation, in 1920, at its insistence, a restriction was imposed on the admission to the higher educational institutions ( numerus clausus ) of persons of Jewish origin. Because of the manifestations of anti-Semitism, Bishop Prohaska is perceived as a controversial person both inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church.
Links
- Prohászka Ottokár (Hung.)