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Gábor Dayka

Hungarian poet, teacher, Catholic priest

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ715001 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gábor Dayka (March 21, 1769 in Miskolc – October 20, 1796 in Ungvár) was a Hungarian poet.

Ödön Szamovolszky sculpted the statue of Gábor Dayka. From 1909 until October 1944, it stood in front of the Hungarian-language Drugeth High School in Uzhhorod. It was re-erected on 16 April 1994 after decades of adventures.

Editorial summary

“Gábor Dayka” enters the record as hungarian poet, teacher, Catholic priest. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gábor, Dayka and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1769, 1796, 1909, 1944—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1769-03-21, 1768-05-08—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gábor, Dayka and Hungarian.
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Why this record matters

“Gábor Dayka” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gábor, Dayka and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q715001. VIAF identifies the subject as 71324969. The Library of Congress control number is nr2002003469. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1769, 1796, 1909 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gábor Dayka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.