Matthias Bel [SEP] country of citizenship
life.
Matthias Bel was born in Ocsova, Kingdom of Hungary (now Očová, Slovakia) to Matthias (Matej) Bel Funtík or Bel-Funtík, a Slovak wealthy peasant and butcher. Little is known about his mother Elisabeth born Czesnek (, ) except she was very religious.
He described himself as ""lingua Slavus, natione Hungarus, eruditione Germanus"" ("by language a Slav/Slovak, by nation a Hungarian, by erudition a German"). In 1710, he got married
and clear joy of being free again, which is what we felt then.” (full text)
16 November In his speech at the Matthias Bel University of Banská Bystrica where he carried on a dialogue in the frame of a conversation in public with President Ivan Gašparovič and with university students he formulated that “Allow me to love the whole of our country, which in the past used to be common.” (full text, full text in Slovak)
Relevant public events of President László Sólyom 2007.
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