Ignacije Szentmartony

Ignacije Szentmartony (October 28, 1718 - April 15, 1793) was a Croatian Jesuit priest born in Kotoriba (Me?imurje), into a family with a Croat mother and a Hungarian father.

Expeditions

In 1753, he sailed for Brazil into the very mouth of the Amazon River. Based on his surveys, Lorenz Kaulen made in 1753 a map of Maragnon district titled Mappa Viceprovinciae Societatis Iesu Maragnonii anno MDCCLIII concinnata. Its original is in Biblioteca de Evora in Portugal. Another map, Mapa da Ilha do Maranhao, made in 1757 again based upon Szentmartony's surveys, is also kept here. From 1754 - 1756 Szentmartony took part in expeditions to the Amazon and the Rio Negro. Upon the data obtained from his systematical astronomical surveys, in 1755 engineers Schwebel and Sturm made a regional map titled Mappa Geographico dos Rios. It was a first-rate cartographic representation of the riverbed containing data relating to islets, tributaries and settlements. Based on that map Miguel Vieira Perreira made a copy in 1862 which was first published in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro.

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1753 - Brazil - Amazon River - Lorenz Kaulen - Maragnon - Biblioteca de Evora - Portugal - 1757 - 1754 - 1756 - Rio Negro - 1755 - Miguel Vieira Perreira - Copy - 1862 - 1963 - Rio de Janeiro

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He complained vigorously about the inhumane treatment of the native people by the colonizers, so his expedition came under scrutiny and failed. Szentmartony remained as a missionary in the settlement of Ibyrajuba near Pará. In 1760 he was deported with other persecuted Jesuits, put in prison and released in 1777 upon the intervention of the Empress Maria Theresa. He returned to Croatia. Before that, in 1773 his religious order was cancelled. He was priest in Belica and died in ?akovec in 1793.

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Missionary - Ibyrajuba - Pará - 1760 - 1777 - Empress - Maria Theresa - Croatia - 1773 - Cancelled - Belica - ?akovec - 1793

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Ignacije Szentmartony younger, February 17, 1743, was educated in theology in Vara?din and Graz, lecturer in Vara?din and Zagreb where he wrote the first Croatian kajkavian grammar in the German language, Einleitung zur kroatischen Sprachlehre für Teutschen. It was published in Vara?din in 1783.

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February 17 - 1743 - Theology - Vara?din - Lecturer - Zagreb - Croatian - Kajkavian - Grammar - German - 1783

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