When Mátyás Sárkány was born on 21 May 1888, in Szolnok-tó, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary, his father, Imre Sárkány, was 38 and his mother, Fekete Katalin, was 37. He died on 20 September 1965, in Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary, at the age of 77.
form of the name of the Christian evangelist, author of the first gospel in the New Testament. His name is a form of the Hebrew name Mattathia, meaning ‘gift of God’, which is fairly common in the Old Testament, being rendered in the Authorized Version in a number of different forms: Mattan(i)ah, Mattatha(h), Mattithiah, Mattathias, and so on. In the Authorized Version, the evangelist is regularly referred to as Matthew, while the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot is distinguished as Matthias . A related name from the same Hebrew roots, but reversed, is Jonathan . Throughout the English-speaking world Matthew has been particularly popular since the 1970s.
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