LUKACS, In'kiteh, BELA vox ( I. An Hungarian statesman, born at Zalatna. lie stud ied law at Pesth, was elected to the Diet in 1872. and in 1ss6 became director of the Hun garian State railways, in which capacity he in troduced important reforms. (in the death of Barons, in 1892, he bee•na• Minister of Com merce. He wrote a number of financial works, including a treatise on the Financial and Tax System of Austria and Hungary 1137(11: one on the uslro-llunyarian Bun!: and others on the financial administrations of Rumania, England, and France.
LUKASZEWICZ,•.10zEr (1799 1S73). A Polish historian, born at Kr( mplevo, near Posen, and educated at the gymnasium of Posen. In 18•9 he was appointed librarian of Count Raezynski. With Poplin-ki he formed a Polish press and publishing house, and edited T+lqodnik Litcracki. Przyjacicl Iniltt. and net doirnik. In 1S52, after teaching. Latin several years in Posen, he bought the Targiiszyee estate and resigned from his position as librarian. Ills works include a translation , f Nonni/ Histfrry 11845) : the Protestant histories: Thu (10010,ir hi.storitr_nm a 1r l'oznanite II' X11. Ir XI I 1 . rri.l,u I 1832: trans lated into German. 18431, on the lust, ry of dissent•: a work on the Brethren. 0 fcoteiohte/i Brari F thr Walser (1s35) : and. r n the Calvii ist body in 1..0.2(401411- rrtizlia is 10 I r, rki• in na l.itirir 11941-431: the Catholic. history. Krtitki pie pt. •arbia1,Indi (1858-631 : a sketch f Posen. historuc:no-talastuc: u iacta PeZnal fa I I n a geography. written with the psi nilonym .T. An drvszowiez. oprafin i Po/ski Ind the valuable of Polish education, illistorga s:kol tv Koranic i 'W. Ks. Lit., etc. (1849-51), LUKE (Lat. Lucas, Gk. Aocsac, Loukas, prob 'ably contracted from Let. Lucenus). The au thor of the third Gospel and the Book of Acts in the New Testament. There is little direct infor mation concerning Luke. According to tradition and an old reading of Acts xi. 27, which Zahn (Einleitung, p. 334) thinks reliable, he was a
number of the church at Antioch as early as e.40 This, however, is not certain. The 'we' sections of Acts (xvi. 10-18; xx. 5-xxi. 18; xxvii. I-xxviii. 16) show that he was a member of Paul's missionary company when the latter, on his second journey, c.50 Al).. (Acts v. 36-xviii. 17). sailed from Trolls to Alaeedonia. He seems to have stayed at Philippi until the Apostle stopped at that place (spring of 50) on his return from his third journey (Acts xx. 6). Luke accom panied Paul to Jerusalem, and was probably in attendance on him during his two years' im prisonment at Caesarea. As one of Paul's com panions ou the voyage to Rome, he experienced the shipwreck and its attendant sufferings. At Rome, during the Apostle's two years' imprison ment (59-61), he seems to have resumed his practice of medicine (cf. Col. iv. 14), and also assisted Paul in Christian work (cf. Philem. 24). He was a faithful attendant on Paul in his sec ond Roman imprisonment (c.64-65). even when other friends had deserted him (II. Tim, iv. 11). Later in life, probably after Paul's death, he wrote his Gospel, primarily for the benefit of one Thcophilus, a man of some rank, according to tradition a resident of Antioch (cf. Luke i. 1 sqq.). Ile afterwards wrote the Acts, dedicat ing it to the same friend (Acts i. 1).
Luke was of Gentile extraction. His works show him to have been a man of culture, and his faithfulness to Paul, with the latter's affectionate mention of him (Col. iv. 14), is evidence of a sincere, warm-hearted spirit. Contrary to the common view, Professor Ramsay thinks that Luke was a native of Macedonia and met Paul first at Trons (Acts xvi, 10). For details as to Luke's writings, see LUKE, GOSPEL OF, and ACTS OF TUE Al'OSTLES. Consult, besides the taries on Luke: Zahn, Einleitung in des 'cue Testament, vol. ii. (Leipzig. 1900) ; Ramsay, Saint Paul tJc Traveler and the Roman Citiwn (Ne• York, 1896).