Count József Teleki de Szék (24 October 1790 – 15 February 1855) was a
Hungarian jurist and historian, who served as the first President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its mai ...
from 1830 until his death.
He was born into an old noble Calvinist family. He functioned as
Governor of Transylvania between 1842 and 1848.
Ancestry
References
* Szinnyei, József: ''Magyar írók élete és munkái XIII. (Steiner–Télfy).'' Budapest: Hornyánszky. 1909.
Nagy Ferenc: Teleki József gróf. In: Nemzeti évfordulóink 2005. Bp.: Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma, 2004
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1790 births
1855 deaths
19th-century Hungarian historians
Hungarian nobility
Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed Christians
Jozsef
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences