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Zsófia
Zsófia is a female given name, the Hungarian equivalent of ''Sophia'', and may refer to: * Zsófia Balla (born 1949), Romanian-born Hungarian poet and essayist * Zsófia Bán (born 1957), writer, literary historian, essayist and art and literature critic *Zsófia Báthory (1629–1680), Hungarian noblewomen, mother of Francis I Rákóczi * Zsófia Bosnyák (1609–1644), Hungarian noblewomen, wife of Count Ferenc Wesselényi * Zsófia Csonka (born 1983), Hungarian sport-shooter * Zsófia Dénes (1885–1987), Hungarian writer * Zsófia Erdélyi (born 1987), Hungarian long-distance runner * Zsófia Fegyverneky (born 1984), Hungarian basketball player * Zsófia Földházi (born 1993), Hungarian modern pentathlon * Zsófia Gottschall (born 1978), Hungarian biathlete * Zsófia Gubacsi (born 1981), Hungarian former professional tennis player * Zsófia Illésházy (1547–1599), Hungarian noblewoman * Zsófia Kovács (born 1988), Hungarian professional triathlete * Zsófia Kovács ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Kovács (triathlete)
Zsófia Kovács (born 7 February 1988 in Gyöngyös) is a Hungarian professional triathlete, winner of the Hungarian Cup 2010 ''(Triatlon Ranglista)'' and member of the National Team. Since 2004 Zsófia Kovács has regularly taken part in ITU competitions. Each year, she has achieved top ten positions in various age groups, e.g. the silver medal at the European Championships of the year 2004 (Junior), and, from 2006 onwards, also in the elite class, placing sixth at the Premium European Cup in Eilat (2006), fourth at the European Cup in Balatonfüred (2008), and ninth again at the Premium European Cup in Eilat (2009). In 2009 Kovács won the Hungarian Triathlon Cup called ''Triatlon Tour'' after she had placed fifth in 2008 when she was beaten by Zsófia Tóth. Kovács is an elite member of the triathlon club, GYÖTRI. Zsófia Kovács still lives in Mátrafüred. She went to the local high school Nagy János Gimnázium in Gyöngyös and was selected, several times, for the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Tóth
Zsófia Tóth (born 25 December 1989 in Tata), also Zsófi, is a Hungarian professional triathlete, several times National Champion in various categories, number 2 in the national elite'' Ranglista'' and the 2011 National Vice Champion. Since 2005 she has been a permanent member of the National Team. In the 2010 ITU ranking ''(Women’s Standings)'' she was number 20 of the 81 best U23 triathletes of the world. Education Zsófia Tóth attended the ''Váci Mihály Általános Iskola'' and the high schoo''Középiskola Bárdos László Gimnázium''in Tatabánya, which she finished in 2009. Then she moved to Vienna, where she lived together with the Austrian Hungarian triathlete Christian Wohlmutter and studied sports at the University of Vienna. Sports career Since 2003 Zsófia Tóth has been supported by the Hungarian ''Herkulesz'' sports promotion scheme and by the Hungarian company group MOL and its foundation ''Új Europaal Aapítvány.'' Tóth's coach is Licskó Csaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Torma
Zsófia Torma (26 September 1832 – 14 November 1899) was a Hungarian archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist. Life and work Torma was born in Csicsókeresztúr, Beszterce-Naszód County, Austria-Hungary (today Cristeștii Ciceului, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania). After her parents died, she moved with her sister to Szászváros, now in Romania, where she began to study the snail farms she found in Hunedoara County. She was mostly self-educated. In 1875, she was encouraged by Flóris Rómer, considered by some to be the father of Hungarian archeology, to begin her own excavations of the ancient settlement of Tordos, along the Mureş river. The symbols and scripts on clay objects she found during an excavation in Hunyad County became an archaeological sensation. She also found artifacts of the 6,000- to 7,000-year-old Tordos culture, some of which were covered with Vinca symbols. According to Gizella,Zsófia Torma was the first to discover the Neolithic cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Kovács (gymnast)
Zsófia Kovács (; born 6 April 2000) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 and 2023 European all-around silver medalist, the 2020 European champion on uneven bars, as well as the 2020 and 2022 European champion on vault. Early life Kovács was born on 6 April 2000 in Dunaújváros. She started gymnastics at the age of six. Senior career 2016 Kovács became age-eligible for senior competition in 2016, and made her senior debut at the Austrian Team Open, where she won the all-around ahead of Giulia Steingruber and Barbora Mokošová. She then competed at the Doha World Challenge Cup, where she took the bronze medal on floor behind Steingruber and Diana Bulimar. In April, Kovács competed at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro, which served as a qualifier for the 2016 Summer Olympics. She finished fourteenth in the all-around, earning an individual berth for the Olympic Games. In the qualification ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Bán
Zsófia Bán (born September 23, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a writer, literary historian, essayist and art and literature critic. Personal life Zsófia Bán grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Jewish parents. In 1969, she and her family returned to Hungary where she studied English language and Literature as well as Romance Studies in Budapest (1976–1981), Lisbon, Minneapolis and New Brunswick. She has worked in film studios, curated art exhibitions, was a fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut in Berlin, a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a writer-in-residence in Zug, Switzerland, among other residencies. From August 2015 to July 2016 Bán was a writer-in-residence at the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Artists-in-Berlin Program. She lives and works in Budapest, where she was an associate professor of American Studies at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Illésházy
Zsófia Katalin Illésházy de Illésháza (1547–1599) was a Hungarian noblewoman, the sixth and youngest child of Tamás Illésházy and his second wife, Zsófia Földes. Her father functioned as Vice-ispán (Viscount; ''vicecomes'') of Pozsony County. Her elder brother was Baron István Illésházy, who served as Palatine of Hungary between 1608 and 1609. Family In 1566, she married Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (1533–1604), the first member of the prestigious House of Esterházy. They had the following children: * Magdolna (26 January 1567 – 1 September 1616), married to László Kubinyi de Felsőkubin et Nagyolaszi (d. 1598) * Ferenc I (b. 18 July 1568), died young * Tamás (8 May 1570 – 1615 or 1616) * István (4 March 1572 – 26 October 1596), died in the Battle of Keresztes * János (b. 1574), died young * Ferenc II (b. 1576), died young * Farkas (1577 – 25 August 1643) * Zsófia (29 October 1578 – 7 May 1620), married to Márton Révay de Riva et Treboszt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Bosnyák
Zsófia Bosnyák ( sk, Žofia Bosniakova, Nagysurány (Šurany), June 2, 1609 – Sztrecsnó (Strečno), April 28, 1644) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian noble and wife of Count Ferenc Wesselényi. Life Bosnyák was the daughter of Baron Tamás Bosnyák and Mária Kenderes. At the age of seventeen, she married Mihály Serényi, captain of Fülek (Filakovo) and Szendrő Castles, but the marriage lasted only for a few months (until Serényi's death in March 1626). After the death of her first husband, she returned to Nagysurány to her parents. Later that year, her mother died, and in the following year, she lost her 22-year-old brother. Her father was serving in Fülek Castle at that time, so it was she who dealt with the management of their estate. Soon, she became known by the neighborhood as a generous supporter of the poor and the sick. At the age of 21, as a result of the mediation of cardinal Péter Pázmány, she married Ferenc Wesselényi. They lived in the Sztrecsnó (St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Szamosi
Zsófia Szamosi (born 12 August 1977) is a Hungarian actress. Her film credits include ''Sing'', ''Strangled'' and '' One Day''. Szamosi was also a cast member in the television shows '' Terápia'' and '' The Curse''. Filmography * 2023: ''Tündérkert – Kísértések kora'', directed by István Madarász - as Erzsébet Báthory * 2023: ''Legyetek szeretettel'', directed by Andor Szilágyi - as Tókáné * 2023: ''Műanyag égbolt'', directed by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó - as Nóra * 2023: ''Cella – Letöltendő élet'', directed by Mano Csillag - as Anyuka * 2019: ''Foglyok'', directed by Kristóf Deák - as Ilona * 2019: ''Szép csendben'', directed by Zoltán Nagy - as Zsuzsa, Nóri's mother * 2018: ''One Day'' (''Egy nap''), directed by Zsófia Szilágyi - as Anna * 2017: ''Vértestek'', directed by Lóránd Banner-Szűcs - as Ibolya * 2017: ''Sandwich'', directed by Attila Hartung - as Colonel * 2016: ''Partizánok'', directed by Szonja Szabó - as Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Balla
Zsófia Balla (born 15 January 1949) is a Romanian-born Hungarian poet and essayist. She is considered to be one of the most prominent female poets in Hungary. Biography Balla was born in the Romanian city of Cluj to ethnic Hungarian parents. Her father was a writer and her mother a German teacher. She studied music (violin) at the Cluj Academy of Music, graduating in 1972. After divorcing her first husband, she married the poet Csaba Báthori in 1997. After publishing her first poems in the journal ''Igaz Szó'' in 1965, her first collection of poetry ''A dolgok emlékezete'' (Memories of Things) was published in Bucharest in 1968. From 1972, she worked in the Hungarian department of the Cluj radio station as music editor until the station was closed in 1985. Thereafter, she worked as a journalist for the national Romanian newspaper ''Elore'' and as literary editor for two weekly magazines. In 1990, she became a member of the Hungarian Writers Association and in 1992 she joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Erdélyi
Zsófia Erdélyi (born 10 December 1987 in Budapest) is a Hungarian long-distance runner. Erdélyi ran 2:39:04 and placed 52nd at Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon. Hungary at the 2016 European Athletics Championships 2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's half marathon in 1:21:32. 1:15:25 in 2015 Vienna City Half-Marathon. Erdélyi finished 21st in the 2014 European Athletics Championships – Women's 10,000 metres. Hungary at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 20 to 26 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, China. Qualification Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 36 athletes, 18 per each gender and ... Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' 2000 metre steeplechase She competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 92nd with a time of 2:44:45. Zsofia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Földházi
Zsófia Földházi (; born 9 June 1993) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. She has qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 .... References External links * 1993 births Living people Hungarian female modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Hungary Modern pentathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists Sportspeople from Budapest {{Hungary-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Polgar
Sofia Polgar ( hu, Polgár Zsófia, ); born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, she is the middle sister of two Grandmasters, Susan and Judit. She has played for Hungary in four Chess Olympiads, winning two team gold medals, one team silver, three individual golds, and one individual bronze. Biography Polgar was born into a Jewish family in Budapest. She and her two sisters were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in specialist subjects from a very early age—László's thesis being that "geniuses are made, not born". He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. They also taught their daughters the international language Esperanto. In the 1986 World unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
