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Kertész
Kertész is a Hungarian language, Hungarian occupational surname, which means gardener, derived from ''kert'' and ''kertez'' ("garden").''Dictionary of American Family Names''"Kertész Family History" Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 20 January 2016. Alternative spellings include Kertesz and Kertes. The surname may refer to: *Adolf Kertész (1892–1920), Hungarian footballer *Alice Kertész (born 1935), Hungarian gymnast *Amir Kertes (born 1975), Israeli musician *André Kertész (1894–1985), Hungarian photographer *Daniella Kertesz (born 1989), Israeli actress *Dezsö Kertész (1892–1965), Hungarian actor *Edith Kertész-Gabry (1927–2012), Hungarian singer *Géza Kertész (1894–1945), Hungarian football player and manager * Gyula Kertész (1888–1982), Hungarian footballer *Imre Kertész (1929–2016), Hungarian writer *István Kertész (conductor) (1929–1973), Hungarian conductor *István Kertész (diplomat) (1904–1986), Hungarian diplomat *János Kertész ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Kertész
André Kertész (; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition (visual arts), composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism. Expected by his family to work as a stockbroker, Kertész pursued photography independently as an Autodidacticism, autodidact, and his early work was published primarily in magazines, a major market in those years. This continued until much later in his life, when Kertész stopped accepting commissions. He served briefly in World War I and moved to Paris in 1925, then the artistic capital of the world, against the wishes of his family. In Paris he worked for France's first illustra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom. Life and work Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 9 November 1929, the son of Aranka Jakab and László Kertész, a middle-class Jewish couple. After his parents separated when he was around the age of five, Kertész attended a boarding school and, in 1940, he started secondary school where he was put into a special class for Jewish students. During World War II, Kertész was deported in 1944 at the age of 14 with other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was later sent to Buchenwald. Upon his arrival at the camps, Kertész claime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Kertész (conductor)
István Kertész (28 August 192916 April 1973) was an internationally acclaimed Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who, throughout his brief career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček. Kertész was part of a musical tradition that produced fellow Hungarian conductors Fritz Reiner, Antal Doráti, János Ferencsik, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, János Fürst, Ferenc Fricsay, and Georg Solti. Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz ( ; born Manó Kaminer; since 1905 Mihály Kertész; hu, Kertész Mihály; December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent. Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age. He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the fastest-growing movie studio. He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, where he directed ten actors to Oscar nominations. James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtiz's direction. He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis. He himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilmos Kertész
Vilmos Kertész (21 March 1890 – 15 September 1962) was a Hungarian international Olympian footballer. He played alongside his two brothers, Gyula and Adolf. Early life Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. Career Kertész played club football at the inside right and midfield positions for MTK Budapest from 1908 to 1924.Andrew Handler (1985)''From the Ghetto to the Games; Jewish Athletes in Hungary''/ref>Dominic Bliss (2014)''Erbstein: the triumph and tragedy of football's forgotten pioneer''/ref> He played alongside his two brothers, Gyula and Adolf. He was a midfielder for NSC Budapest from 1924 to 1926. He played international football for the Hungary national football team, where he earned a total of 47 caps, scoring 11 goals. Kertész also participated at the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.Jonathan Wilson (2019)''The Names Heard Long Ago; How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game''/ref> Kertész coached Ékszer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Kertész
Adolf Kertész (15 March 1892 – November 1920; nicknamed "Kertész III") was a Hungarian footballer who played as a half back at both the professional level for MTK Budapest (winning the Hungarian League championship four times and the Hungarian Cup once) and the international level for the Hungary national football team. He was Jewish.Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965)''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports''/ref> Career Kertész played left midfielder in club football for MTK Budapest between 1909 and 1920.Andrew Handler (1985)''From the Ghetto to the Games; Jewish Athletes in Hungary''/ref> He scored 19 goals in 148 league matches. He won the Hungarian League championship with MTK four times ( 1913–14, 1916–17, 1917–18, and 1919–20). He was a member of the side that won the 1909–10 Hungarian Cup. Kertész also represented Hungary at international level, earning 11 caps between 1911 and 1920. Personal life Kertész, who was Jewish, was born in Kisfalu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Kertész
Gyula Kertész (also known as ''Julius Kertész''; 29 February 1888 – 1 May 1982) was a Hungarian international footballer who played as a winger alongside his two brothers, Vilmos and Adolf. Kertész was born in Kálnica in what was then Hungary, and was Jewish. Playing career Kertész played club football for MTK Budapest in 1906–07 to 1911–12. He also played international football for Hungary, where he earned one cap against Austria in 1912. In 1911, to supplement his income, along with fellow MTK player Izidor Kürschner he set up a photographic studio. Coaching career Kertész coached several clubs in Germany, such as Union Altona (1921–1924) and Victoria Hamburg (1924–1928), and in other countries including France and Scandinavia during the 1920s. He managed Swiss side FC Basel between 1928 and 1930. In January 1931 he took over at Hamburger SV, where he successfully revamped the team, adding Rudolf Noack and other promising new players until he was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Kertész-Gabry
Edith Kertész-Gabry (18 July 1927 – 10 February 2012) was a Hungarian soprano and professor of opera at the Cologne University of Music. Early years and education Edith Kertész-Gabry, born Edith Gáncz in Budapest, Hungary, studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and made her debut in 1951 at the Budapest National Opera. That same year, she married the conductor, István Kertész. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Kertész-Gabry left Hungary and moved to Germany with her husband and young son. Career Kertész-Gabry received an appointment to the Bremen Opera from where she moved on to Cologne in 1960. On 15 February 1965 she distinguished herself as a dramatic coloratura soprano in the lead role of Marie in the premiere of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera, ''Die Soldaten''. Zimmermann's four-act opera commissioned by the Cologne Opera is considered one of the most important and influential operas written in Germany since the second world war." In 1974 she perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Kertész
Alice Kertész (also Alíz Kertész; born November 17, 1935) is a former Hungarian gymnast. She is Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary. She helped Hungary win the silver medal in the team event in gymnastics at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rome, the capital of Italy, on June 28 - July 1, 1954. It was the first World Championships at which the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Sociali .... She won a gold medal in team exercise with portable apparatus and a silver medal in team combined exercises at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. She placed 6th in the uneven bars. The Hungarian Gymnastic Federation awarded her and her fellow Olympic team members the Hungarian President's Medal in June 2011. See also * List of select Jewish gymnasts References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kertesz, Alice 1935 births Living people Hungarian female artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Kertész (diplomat)
István Kertész (later known as Stephen Denis Kertesz) (April 8, 1904–January 26, 1986) was a Hungarian diplomat who represented Hungary during the peace talks following World War II. Biography He was born on April 8, 1904 in Putnok, Hungary, to Lajos and Mária (Stolcz) Kertesz. He received a Dr. Jur. from the University of Budapest in 1926, and a diploma from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Paris in 1928.Bognár. During the Second World War, worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1943-1944, made efforts to convey the intentions of Admiral Miklós Horthy to surrender to the Allied powers in order to avoid further damage to the country. After the war, Kertész opposed the Soviet takeover of Hungary and tried to avert the Allied demand to expel the German minority from Hungary. In 1946, Kertész represented the Hungarian government at the Paris Peace Conference. Later, he fled Hungary and emigrated to the United States The Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Kertész
Géza Kertész (18 November 1894 – 6 February 1945), also known as Kertész IV, was a Hungarian footballer and manager from Budapest. He is most noted for his career as a football manager in Italy at clubs such as Lazio, Roma and Atalanta. Death During World War II, Kertesz returned from Italy to Hungary in 1943, when he was recalled to serve as lieutenant-colonel in the Hungarian Army in training role. In liaison with the American secret service he set up a clandestine resistance network with former teammate Istvan Toth which rescued many Hungarian partisans and Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during German occupation and Arrow Cross Party rule, sometimes disguising himself as a German Wehrmacht officer for cover. He was denounced to the Gestapo by an informer for sheltering Jews and was executed at Budapest alongside Toth on 6 February 1945, a few days before the city was liberated by the Soviet forces. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
