Ignác Batthyány

Ignác Batthyány (born 30 June 1741, Németújvár (present-day Güssing), Kingdom of Hungary; died 17 November 1798, Gyulafehérvár (present-day Alba Iulia), Principality of Transylvania) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Transylvania.

He was librarist at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome. When he was appointed bishop of Transylvania in 1781, he named himself as „the zealous protector and promoter of the sciences in Transylvania.”

Ignác Batthyány was the founder of the Batthyaneum Library in Gyulafehérvár (Alba Iulia).

Between 1792-1798 he commissioned the restoration of Martinuzzi Castle.

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