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Oszkár Ascher
Oszkár is a Hungarian masculine given name, a variant of the name Oscar. Notable people with the name include: * Oszkár Asboth (1891–1960), Austro-Hungarian aviation engineer sometimes credited with the invention of the helicopter * Oszkár Beregi, also known as Oscar Beregi (actor, born 1876) (1876–1965), Hungarian-Jewish actor * Oszkár Frey (born 1953), Hungarian sprint canoer * Oszkár Gerde (1883–1944), Hungarian double Olympic team champion sabre fencer * Oszkár Jászi (1875–1957), Hungarian social scientist, historian and politician * Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), Hungarian operatic bass * Oszkár Maleczky (1894–1972), Hungarian operatic baritone * Oszkár Molnár (born 1956), Hungarian politician * Oszkár Nagy (1893–1965), Hungarian painter * Oszkár Seszták Oszkár Seszták (born 1965) is a Hungarian politician, National Assembly of Hungary, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz–Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary), KDNP Szab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar (given Name)
Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of English and Irish origin. Etymology The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ''car'', means "loving" or "friend", thus "deer-loving one" or "friend of deer". The name is borne by a character in Irish mythology—Oscar (Irish mythology), Oscar, grandson of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, and refers to his descent from his grandmother, Sadhbh, who was enchanted into the form of a deer. Less likely, it is derived from Norse-Irish ''Osgar'' "god's spear," from ''gar'' "spear" + ''os'' "god". The name was popularised in the 18th century by Scottish poet James Macpherson, creator of 'Ossianic poetry'. Today the name is associated with Scandinavia because Napoleon was an admirer of Macpherson's work and gave the name to his godson, Joseph Bernadotte, who later became Oscar I of Sweden, Oscar I, King of Sweden. Consequently, at the time many Swedes were named Oscar. The name was given to more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Asboth
Oszkár Asboth, also rendered as Asbóth and Oskar (von) Asboth, (31 March 1891 in Pâncota, Pankota, Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (today Pâncota, Romania) – 27 February 1960 in Budapest) was an ethnic Hungarian aeronautical engineer, aviation engineer sometimes credited with the invention of the helicopter. His machine used stacked Counter-rotating propellers, counterrotating propellers; Asboth never solved the problem of in-flight stability, this was left to others. He was born the son of Terézia Horváth and Gyula Asboth, a forester. He descended from Lajos Asbóth, known from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence. He completed his secondary school education in Arad. From a youthful age, he began to explore the possibilities of human flight. After completing his studies, he worked as an aeronautical engineer in Arad, Szabadka and then in Vienna between 1909 and 1913. He built an experimental unmanned flying motorcycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Beregi (actor, Born 1876)
Oscar Beregi (born Oszkár Berger, 24 January 1876 – 18 October 1965) was a Hungarian-Jewish actor who appeared primarily in German films. Biography Beregi was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He acted onstage in Hungary for 21 years. His son, Oscar Beregi Jr., was also an actor. In April 1920, as "the only Jewish actor of prominence" acting with the Budapest National Theatre, he was the subject of a demonstration that led to the group's changing its program and presenting a play in which Beregi did not participate. In the early 1920s, Beregi was exiled from Hungary because of his "alleged political activities". During the exile he acted in Vienna for four years. He served as president of the Film Actors' Association of Vienna. In 1925 he arrived to Hollywood and stayed there for four years. During that time the actor was filmed in several silent pictures. The most famous was ''Camille'' (1926), opposite Norma Talmadge in the title role. He played Professor Baum in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Frey
Oszkár Frey (born 22 April 1953) is a retired Hungarian canoe sprinter who competed in doubles together with Tamás Buday. They won two bronze medals at the 1976 Olympics and one gold and three silver medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They .... References External links * * 1953 births Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Hungarian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Canoeists from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Gerde
Oszkár Pál Gerde (8 July 1883 – 8 October 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer who won team gold medals at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics. After finishing his active career he judged international fencing competitions and worked as a lawyer. Being a Jew, he was deported from Hungary in 1944, and killed in the same year at the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp in Austria. In 1989 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. See also * List of select Jewish fencers *List of Jewish Olympic medalists Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, Jewish athletes have taken part in both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The following is a list of Jewish athletes who have won an Olympic medal in the modern games. Under ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerde, Oszkar 1883 births 1944 deaths Olympic fencers for Hungary Fencers from Budapest Hungarian people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Fencers at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Jászi
Oszkár Jászi (born Oszkár Jakubovits; 2 March 1875 – 13 February 1957), also known in English as Oscar Jászi, was a Hungarian social scientist, historian, and politician. Early life Oszkár Jászi was born in Nagykároly on March 2, 1875. His hometown was, as he put it in his unfinished memoirs, "the county seat of Szatmár, the center of a rich agricultural area, it was a major factor in Hungary's economic, municipal and political life." His father, Ferenc Jászi (1838–1910), was a family physician and (in his son's words) "an honorable, humane freethinker" who had had his family name changed from ''Jakobuvits'' to ''Jászi'' in 1881, a "typical symptom of the very strong and seemingly unqualified drive for assimilation that he and many Jewish contemporaries displayed around that time... This was the family climate that gave rise in the then six-year-old Oszkár to a self-image whereby for a long time thereafter he was simply unwilling to acknowledge his Jewish origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Kálmán
Oszkár Kálmán (19 June 1887 – 17 September 1971) was a Hungarian bass, remembered as the first Bluebeard. He was Jewish and born in Kisszentpéter (in present day Romania) and in 1913 made his debut as Sarastro at the Royal Opera House in Budapest, where created the title role of Béla Bartók's opera '' A kékszakállú herceg vára'' in 1918. He was among the first singers of Zoltán Kodály's opus nine songs at the Budapest conservatory. By the 1920s, he was resident at the Berlin Staatsoper, and in 1929 he took part in the premiere of Brecht's '' Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis'' with music by Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advo .... In 1941, he was singing Osmin at the Goldmark Theatre in Budapest. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Maleczky
Oszkár Maleczky (Budapest, February 6, 1894 – Budapest, February 22, 1972) was a Kossuth Prize The Kossuth Prize (, ) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1936, by the Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and grou ...-winning Hungarian opera singer (baritone). His parents were Vilmos Maleczky and Jozefa Ellinger. His sister was Bianka Maleczky. Career He studied singing at the Music Academy. Between 1925 and 1927, he sang at the City Theatre, and from 1927 until his retirement, he was a member of the Opera House company. From 1931 to 1962, he taught singing and stage performance at the Music Academy. He performed both heroic baritone and buffo roles. References 1894 births 1972 deaths Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni Hungarian opera singers {{Hungary-opera-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Molnár
Oszkár Molnár (born 1 June 1956) is a Hungarian politician and has been member of the National Assembly (MP) between 1998 and 2014. Biography He was born in Sajószentpéter, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, on 1 June 1956. He finished Izsó Miklós Secondary School of Edelény in 1974. He is married, with two children. His wife is a managing director. Business career He worked as a driver for Borsod Volán in Miskolc from 1980 to 1991. He has been the managing director of Eurolux-Trans Ltd. since 1991, which is, based on its 1996 results, among the 200 most successful businesses in Hungary. He has been a member of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County branch of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1994, where he has been vice chairman of the transport department since 1996. He was the chairman of the Edelény City Sport Club from 1996 to 1999. Political career He joined the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) in 1988, he became the executive of the Edelény branch. He left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Nagy
Oszkár Nagy ( Magyarpécska, September 11, 1893 – Nagybánya, March 1, 1965) was a Hungarian painter. His life In 1912, he studied in Nagybánya, then between 1913 and 1915 he attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Károly Ferenczy. He served on the Italian front (World War I) and was taken prisoner of war in Italy in 1917. He returned home to Arad in 1919, then worked at the artist colony in Szolnok with Adolf Fényes, and in 1920 at the artist colony in Kecskemét with Béla Iványi-Grünwald. Between 1920 and 1922 he visited Italy with a scholarship from the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Later, he lived and worked in Nagybánya for four decades. At the beginning of the 1920s, he wanted to create a rival artist colony in Felsőbánya, near Nagybánya, and therefore his colleagues resented him. From 1922, he exhibited his works in solo exhibitions in Szatmárnémeti, Nagyvárad and Temesvár. In 1993, an exhibition of his life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Seszták
Oszkár Seszták (born 1965) is a Hungarian politician, National Assembly of Hungary, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz–Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary), KDNP Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Regional List between 2010 and 2014. He was elected President of the county's General Assembly on 3 April 2008. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sesztak, Oszkar 1965 births Living people Fidesz politicians Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkar Tordai Schilling
Oszkar Tordai Schilling was a Hungarian artist who mostly used etchings and coal drawings. He was born in Kolozsvar, Austria-Hungary (nowadays Cluj-Napoca in Romania) in 1880. His most productive period was in the 1920s. His well-known pieces are "Entombment" (acquired and exhibited by the British Museum), "Samaritaine" and "Lámpafénynél". Some of his pieces are sought and collected at private and public institutions such as Yale University. References * The British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu .... 1880 births Year of death missing Artists from Cluj-Napoca Hungarian artists {{Hungary-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
