FEJER, GYORGY, a very industrious Hungarian author, was born at Reszthely in the year 1766, studied at the university of Pest' and Buda, was for fifteen years a priest at Stuhlweissenburg, and after occupying the post of professor of dogmatio theology and some others of an analogous character, became in 1324 librarian of tho uulversity of Peath and Buda During all this period his pen bad been in incessant activity, and in a list of his own printed works which he published in 1330 he gives the titles of 102, beginning with the year 1784 when ho was eighteen. They are of various kinds from poetry to dogmatic theology, and of various sizes from mere pamphlets to works in five or more volumes, all iu the Latin language or iu the Hungarian. He specifies some articles of considerable extent which had appeared in periodical publications, but very many of leas con sequence in the ' Hallo Litteratur.Zeituog; and the ' Tudenuinyos Gyiljterneny; are passed over. Of the Tudomrinyos Gyiljtemdny; A very valuable publication, which was for a quarter of a century, from 1317 to 1311, the best magazine and review that Hungary pos sessed, ho was the original editor as well ne a frequent contributor to its pages. His great contribution to the literature of his country is however the ' Codex diplomaticus Hungarian ecciesiasticus ac published between 1829 and 1844 in twelve so-called volumes, which are generally bound in eight-and-twenty, some of the volumes being divided into several sections, each of the size of an ordinary volume.
In this 'Codex,' which is a general collection of charters and other documents relating to Hungarian history from the earliest times to the year 1440, it is said that many errors and inaccuracies are to be found, but the work is a stupendous monument of industry and perseverance, especially when the circumstance, under which it was produced are considered. "I have nought for the documents it contains," says Fe*, in tho preface to ono of the volumes of the Index published in 1535, "and applied for them in season and out of smarm; I have transcribed them with my on n fist (' proprio transcripsi pugno'), and let me be allowed to add, I have been led by no hope of recompense ; I have had no patronage and no assistance ; this work I dedicate to the public lino at an expense from my own purest of 12,000 florins" (about 12001.) Several Latin dissertations on disputed points in Hungarian history are interspersed, and the whole forms an appropriate companion to Katona'a great ' Historis critics regum 11 ungarim: The last works of Fejdr that we have seen ineutioned arc, ' A' Kunok eredetsir61' (' On the Origin of the Huns), and ' A' politlkai Forradalmok okai' The Causes of Political Revolutions), both published in 1850. The last work was prohibited by the Austrian government as of too liberal a character. We have seen no mention of his death •, if living, he must be at the age of ninety.