Mátyás Sárkány

Male21 May 1888–20 September 1965

Brief Life History of Mátyás

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.

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Family Time Line

Imre Sárkány
1849–
Fekete Katalin
1851–1908
Sarkany Imre
1874–
Sarkany Viktoria
István Sárkány
1876–
Sárkány András
1878–1932
Sarkany Julianna
1880–
Julianna Sarkany
1880–1910
Viktoria Sarkany
1882–
Sarkany Pal
1885–
Mátyás Sárkány
1888–1965
Sárkány József
1892–
Mihály Sárkány
1893–1895
István Sárkány
1896–

Sources (2)

  • Sárkány Mátyás, "Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1980"
  • Matyas Sarkany, "Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (12)

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World Events (5)

1914

Age 26

WWI. Hungary fights on the losing side and the monarchy collapses.

1920

Age 32

Hungary loses large part of territory to Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia and Yugoslavia. The National Assembly restores Kingdom of Hungary. Horthy becomes regent and remains influential until 1944.

1938

Age 50

Germany raise treaties in Munich and Vienna in which Southern Slovakia and Northern Transylvania were returned to Hungary.

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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