József Meduna di Montecucco
József Meduna di Montecucco (30 June 1821 – 28 January 1895) was an Italian-Hungarian salami maker.
Biography
[edit]A descendant of the Meduna family, he was born on 30 June 1821 in Castelcucco, Austrian Empire, as Giuseppe Carlo Meduna, son of Severo and brother of Francesco Meduna, mayor of Castelcucco in 1868.[1][2]
As member of the national guard he participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He was a member of the Hungarian Armed Forces Association and one of the founders of the Hungarian Industry Association.[3]
Meduna was one of several Friulian entrepreneurs who adapted Italian culinary tradition and created a new market and industry for salami. With a small capital form Giovanni Piazzoni, he founded the first Hungarian "steamed salami and fat products" factory in Budapest in 1850, pioneering and popularizing the cured sausage of Italian origin in Hungarian cuisine and culture. Other Friulian butchers followed suit in the seasonal production of winter salami, including the Del Medico brothers, the Guglielmini, Suberca, Molinari, Boschetti, Forgiarini, Dozzi, Vidoni and Venturini. Until the outbreak of World War II, their factories almost exclusively employed workers from Friuli due to their craftsmanship.[4][5]
For his products, Meduna received awards at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair,[6][7] the 1878 Paris Exposition,[8] and in 1879 a Silver Cross of Merit by Minister Béla Wenckheim on behalf of Emperor Franz Joseph I for the services achieved during the World Exhibition in Paris.[9] At the 1885 Budapest National Exhibition under the patronage of Crown Prince Rudolf, he received the big exhibition medal, and a gold medal at the 1888 Brussels International Exhibition.[10]
In Hungary, he used the noble title von Meduna, Edler v. Montecucco.[11] Members of this branch are mentioned in several Austro-Hungarian records as Meduna di Montecucco.[12][13][14]
He died on 28 January 1895 in Budapest as the father of fourteen children. Renowned neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist Ladislas J. Meduna was one of his grandsons.
References
[edit]- ^ Farronato, Gabriele (2008). Storia di Castelcucco. Un comune veneto del Pedemonte del Grappa (in Italian). Acelum. p. 409.
- ^ Consorzio Nazionale. Bollettino Ufficiale del Comitato Centrale (in Italian). Vol. III. 1868.
- ^ "20 December 1885". Budapesti Hirlap (in Hungarian). Vol. 5, no. 349.
- ^ Blaskó, Barbara (2016). Molnár, Annamária; Ótott, Noémi; Pál, József (eds.). ""… salt, onest, lavoradôr!" Friuliak Magyarországon a 19–20. század fordulóján" (PDF). Lát(Szó)Tér. Fiatal Kutatók Italianisztikai Tanulmányai. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar Olasz Nyelvi és Irodalmi Tanszék: 284–285. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-12-06.
- ^ European Commission (2008). "Publication of an application pursuant to Article 6(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs". Official Journal of the European Union. 2008/C (206/10): 17. Archived from the original on 2023-12-06.
- ^ "7 September 1873". Képes Kiállítási Lapok (in Hungarian). Vol. 1873, no. 6.
- ^ Amtliches Verzeichnis der Aussteller, welchen von der internationalen Jury Ehrenpreise zuerkannt worden sind. 2. Ausg (in German). K.k. Hof- und Staatsdr. 1873. p. 160.
- ^ "Catalogue officiel : liste des récompenses". Exposition universelle internationale de 1878, à Paris (in French). Ministère de l'agriculture et du commerce: 427. 1878.
- ^ "23 March 1879". Budapesti Közlöny (in Hungarian). Vol. 13, no. 69.
- ^ "25 December 1885". Budapesti Hirlap (in Hungarian). Vol. 5, no. 354.
- ^ "17 December 1885". Budapesti Hirlap (in Hungarian). Vol. 5, no. 346.
- ^ Vizler, Imre. "Montecuccoli Meduna József". Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár Budapest Gyűjtemény, Budapesti sírkertek, 2015 (in Hungarian).
- ^ "Februaravancement im k. u. k. Heere. Verordnungsblatt Nr. 35. (Fortsetzung)". Pester Lloyd (in German). Vol. 64, no. 61.
- ^ "Ranglisten des Kaiserlichen und Königlichen Heeres 1917, Artillerie". Ranglisten Heeres 1914-1918 (in German). 1917: 1120.