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János Aczél (royal secretary)

Secretary, poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ482072 ↗
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János Aczél (died 1523) was a royal secretary and poet.

He was replaced from the provostry of Vác to Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava) as the secretary of Louis II. He was also the abbot of Garamszentbenedek (now Hronský Beňadik, Slovakia). He had died before he could take the position of provost in Pressburg. He wrote poems in Latin, but none of them survived.

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“János Aczél (royal secretary)” enters the record as secretary, poet. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what János, Aczél and royal 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—1523—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around János, Aczél and royal.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q482072. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1523.

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This entry incorporates text from “János Aczél (royal secretary)” 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.