Károly Reviczky

Count Károly Reviczky de Revisnye (Hungarian: revisnyei gróf Reviczky Károly; 4 November 1737 – 10 August 1793), also known as Charles de Revicksky and Charles de Reviczsky, was a Hungarian nobleman, bibliophile and orientalist. He was eminent for his classical taste and erudition.

Biography

Revicksky was born in Hungary in 1737. He served as Envoy Extraordinary from his Imperial Majesty of Hungary to the King of Great Britain,[1] and as Austrian Minister at Florence.[2]

With great judgment and at a considerable expense, he collected a classical library, which he sold during his residence in London to George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer of Althorp. The purchase included an annuity for Revicksky's life, and it formed the basis of Spencer's collection.[3] Of this collection the Count printed and distributed a descriptive catalogue under the title of Bibliotheca Graca et Latina, complectens auctores fere, omnes Grscite et Latii veteris, quorum opera, vel fragmenta xtatem tulerunt, exceptia tantum asceticis et theologicis Patrum nuncupatorum scriptis; cum delectu editionum tam primariarum, principum, et rarissimarura, quam etiam optimarum, splendidissimarum, atque nitidissimtrum, quas usui meo paravi, Periergus Deltophilus, Berolini, 1784 in eight volumes. It has likewise the following French title, Catalogue de mes Livres. Premiere Partie, contenant les auteurs Classiques Grecs et Latins, avec des remarques tires de different ouvrages bibliographiques, souvent cclaircise, quelquefois redressees. Prefixed to the work (which consists of about 300 pages) is a letter of ten pages, in French, addressed to M. L'A. D**** (M. l'Abbé Denina).[4] Besides this work, Revicksky published an essay in French on Turkish Tactics (Vienna, 8 volumes), and "Specimen Poeseds Persicne, s. Muhammedis Schemseddini, notioris agnomine Haphyzi, Ghazeke sive oda sexdccim ex initio Diwani depromtae; nunc primum Latinitate donats, cum mctaphrasi ligata et soluta, paraphrasi item et notis, Vienna", (1771, 8 volumes).[1]

Revicksky was made a Commander of the Order of St. Stephen. He died at Vienna in August 1793.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nichols, John (1815). Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A. and Many of His Learned Friends; ... (Public domain ed.). pp. 724–.
  2. ↑ Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion (Public domain ed.). Bradbury and Soden. 1842. pp. 6–.
  3. ↑ Horne, Thomas Hartwell (1814). An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography ; to which is Prefixed a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Ancients (Public domain ed.). G. Woodfall. pp. 724–.
  4. ↑ Sinopoli, Franca (September 1998). "Imre Károly Reviczky e la Tradizione dei Classici Alla Fine del Settecento". Neohelicon 25 (2): 243–255. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
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