Eminent Hungarians

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Krisztián Nyáry lectured on the history of poetry for several years at Pécs University, and although he resigned his lectureship in the mid-1990s the history of literature and culture remains his hobby. He has run a PR agency, a public opinion research institute, and has been communications director of a state organ; presently he is busy publishing books. In early 2012 he began to publish on Facebook - for his friends - sketches of the love-lives of Hungarian artists and writers, which rapidly attained great popularity. These jottings gave rise to two books entitled így szerettek ők 1-2 (Thus they loved), which became best-sellers. In his books Igazi hősök (Real Heroes) and Merész magyarok (Valiant Hungarians) of 2014 and 2015 respectively he has written about men and women whose lives, and determination set examples that remain valid to this day.,In his latest book he gives an account of the love relationships of Hungarian painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Tovább

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Krisztián Nyáry lectured on the history of poetry for several years at Pécs University, and although he resigned his lectureship in the mid-1990s the history of literature and culture remains his hobby. He has run a PR agency, a public opinion research institute, and has been communications director of a state organ; presently he is busy publishing books. In early 2012 he began to publish on Facebook - for his friends - sketches of the love-lives of Hungarian artists and writers, which rapidly attained great popularity. These jottings gave rise to two books entitled így szerettek ők 1-2 (Thus they loved), which became best-sellers. In his books Igazi hősök (Real Heroes) and Merész magyarok (Valiant Hungarians) of 2014 and 2015 respectively he has written about men and women whose lives, and determination set examples that remain valid to this day.,In his latest book he gives an account of the love relationships of Hungarian painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Bernard Adams was born in 1937 in the Black Country. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read Hungarian and Russian. After a spell as Fellow in Turkish at London University, he followed a career as a schoolmaster (mostly at Highgate School) until 1991. He then took early retirement in order to concentrate on the translation of Hungarian literature, eventually moving to Hungary in 2006.
György Cziffra, the pianist: the Secret Police made him break stone at Recsk so that he would not be able to play again.
Mihály Fadlallah el Hedad: he left Syria for Hungary, became an army officer and made the horse-farm at Bábolna the best in the world.
Olivér Halassy: the world's first Paralympian. By a superhuman achievement he won gold in water polo and the 1,500 metres on the same day.
Vilma Hugonnai, the first Hungarian woman doctor: she struggled for twenty years so that women could qualify as doctors in Hungary.
Sára Karig: for uncovering the communist deception in the elections of 1949 she served six and a half years in one of the harshest Soviet labour camps.
Áron Márton, bishop of Transylvania: he was exiled to Romania by the Hungarian authorities for denouncing the disenfranchisement of the Jews as unchristian and inhuman.
Menyhért Lakatos, a writer: permitted, though a Gypsy, to attend school, he was shot at and almost killed for someone's amusement.
László Papp, most successful'Hungarian boxer ever: he was prevented by decree of the communist party from competing for the professional world championship.
Simon Papp: the world's best oil explorer, he was sentenced to life imprisonment but from his prison cell discovered the most important oilfields in Hungary.
Imre Reviczky: by his humane treatment of them he saved the lives of 40,000 Jewish, Serbian and Ruthenian forced labourers, but ended his days delivering coal.
Ignác Semmelweis, the saviour of mothers: he clung so firmly to his beliefs that his medical colleagues and his family combined to put him in a lunatic asylum. Vissza