Godinka, Anthony

Born in the village of Ladomirov (now Slovakia ) in the family of a Greek Catholic priest. He graduated from school in the village of Sokirnitsa (now Khust district of Transcarpathian region ). He studied at the gymnasiums of the cities of Sighetu-Marmatiei (now Romania ), Uzhgorod in the Mukachevo Theological Seminary, in 1882 - at the Central Theological Seminary in Budapest ( Hungary ). From 1888, he was an employee of the library of the Hungarian National Museum ; from 1889, he was a scholarship holder at the Austrian Historiographic Institute in Vienna , where he became a student of the famous Slavicist Vatroslav Jagic . In 1891 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Sources of Serbian history and its first period."

In 1892-1906, he was a scientist at the Imperial and Royal Confessional Library in Vienna, where he studied paleography , the history of the southern Slavs (Serbs and Croats), and published archival sources.

In 1905 he received the title of Privatdocent of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Budapest for his study “The History of Hungarian-Slavic Contacts until 1526”. Since 1906 - professor at the Academy of Law and the University of Bratislava (now the capital of Slovakia), since 1923 - head of the Department of World History, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. Since 1932 - rector of the University of Pecs (Hungary). Since 1935 - retired.

In 1941-1943 - the first chairman of the "Subcarpathian Society of Sciences" in Uzhgorod. He studied issues of general history, the history of Hungary, Transcarpathia and the church, Hungarian-Slavic ties.

Died in Budapest.

Among a significant number of historical works (mainly in Hungarian ), most of which are stored in the manuscript department of the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the most important are:

• “History of the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Diocese” (Budapest, 1909)
• "Archives of the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Diocese, vol. 1: 1458-1715" (Uzhgorod, 1911)
• "Parts of Russian annals associated with the Hungarians" (Budapest, 1916)
• "Appendices to the history of the Uzhgorod castle and the city of Uzhgorod" (Uzhgorod, 1917)
• "Rusyn-Magyar dictionary of verbs" (7500 words; Uzhhorod, 1922)
• “Uttsyuznina, the gas industry and the past of the South Carpathian Rusinuv” (Uzhgorod; Oxford, both 1922; Budapest, 1923; Paris, 1924)
• “Prince Ferenc Rakoczi II and the most faithful people” (Pecs, 1937) and others

The conclusion and publication of the scientific heritage of Khodynka was carried out by Professor Udvari (the city of Niredgaz, Hungary).

Modern editions

• Songs of our ancestors: One hundred of our songs. Budapest-Uzhhorod, 1993.
• Uttsyuznina, the gas industry and the past of the South Carpathian Rusynuv. I am writing a syrennitsa sirokhman. Niredgaz, 2000.

• General bibliography of Subcarpathia. - Uzhgorod, 1944.
• And Mishanich. From Subcarpathian Rusyns to Transcarpathian Ukrainians. - Uzhhorod, 1991.
• Scientific research in honor of Anthony Chasik. - Niredigaz, 1993.
• Beat V. Anthony Chasok - a researcher in the history of Rusyns. - Niredigaz, 1992.
• Beat V. Traditions of A. V. Dukhnovich in the activity of A. Chasik. // In the book: A. V. Dukhnovich and the Slavic world. - Uzhhorod, 1993.
• Magochiy P.G. Formation of national self-consciousness: Subcarpathian Russia (1848-1948). - Uzhhorod, 1994.
• Khlanta I. Literary Transcarpathia in the XX century.: Bibliographic index. - Uzhhorod, 1995.
• Danilyuk D. History of Transcarpathia in biographies and portraits (from ancient times to the beginning of the XX century). - Uzhhorod, 1997.

• "Stepan Vidnyansky . " Anthony Vremechko // Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine / editorial board: V. A. Smoliy et al.; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine. - K.: Naukova Dumka, 2004 .-- T. 2: G - D. - 518 p. : ill. - ISBN 966-00-0405-2 .