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ELTE Faculty Of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities is the oldest Faculty (division), faculty of Eötvös Loránd University in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom–Budapest, Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom Prince Primate of Hungary, Péter Pázmány, in 1635. History The Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University was founded by Péter Pázmány, Archbishop of Esztergom, on May 12, 1635. The university was operated by the Society of Jesus and it consisted of two faculties: The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Theology. At that time, students could obtain three academic titles: Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Doctor of Philosophy. In 1770, the Faculty of Humanities adopted the reforms introduced at the University of Vienna. The university then became state-owned, and a Dean (education), dean and a director of the Faculty were appointed to monitor its functioning. In 1777, the Faculty of Humanities was moved to Bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Budapesti EAC
Budapesti Egyetemi Atlétikai Club (English: Budapest University Athletic Club) is a Hungarian football club from the city of Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul .... The club was founded by the Eötvös Loránd University. History Budapesti EAC debuted in the 1924–25 season of the Hungarian League and finished ninth. Name changes *1898–1948: Budapesti Egyetemi Athletikai Club *1948–1949: Természettudományi MEFESz *1949: merger with Műegyetemi MEFESz *1949–1950: Budapesti MEFESz *1950–1951: Disz FSE *1951: merger with Műegyetemi AFC *1951–1957: Budapesti Haladás SK *1957–present: Budapesti Egyetemi AC Honours * Hungarian Cup: ** Runner-up (1) : 1925–26 Managers * Pál Várhidi Notable members * Peter Bakonyi References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
József Eötvös
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (pronunciation: jɔ:ʒef 'øtvøʃ dɛ 'va:ʃa:rɔʃnɒme:ɲ 3 September 1813 – 2 February 1871) was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany. Eötvös name is sometimes anglicised as Joseph von Eotvos. Biography The Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény was born in the Hungarian aristocratic family Eötvös de Vásárosnamény. His father was the Baron Ignác Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (1786–1851), vice-chancellor of the Kingdom of Hungary, and his mother was the Baroness Anne von der Lilien (1786–1858). On 13 September 1842 he married Ágnes Rosty de Barkóc (1825–1913). Baron Eötvös' brother in law was Pál Rosty de Barkócz (1830–1874), a Hungarian nobleman, photographer, explorer, who visited Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela between 1857 and 1859. Another brother-in-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arthur Yolland
Arthur Battishill Yolland (24 August 1874, Hoylake - 12 November 1956, Budapest) was an English literary scholar, tennis coach, footballer and international referee. Life His parents were John Yolland and Emma Pace. He was born in Hoylake, Merseyside, England on 24 August 1874. He attended Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire between 1888 and 1893. He continued his studies at the University of Cambridge and in 1896 he earned a Bachelor's degree. In the same year, he was invited by Mihály Demeczky to become an English teacher at the József Ferenc Institute. In 1898, he became a lecturer at the Budapest University. In 1914, he was appointed as the head of the Department of English. Between 1945 and 1947, he became the head of department once again. In 1905, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Budapest University. Referee career On 11 June 1903, he was appointed as the referee for the match between Hungary national football team and Austria national football tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ignác Goldziher
Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher (22 June 1850 – 13 November 1921), often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungary, Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies. His most important work is the two-volume ''Muhammedanische Studien'' (''Muslim Studies''), especially its second volume, which addresses questions of the origins, evolution, and development of hadith. Biography Born in Székesfehérvár of German Jewish heritage, he was educated at the universities of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, University of Leipzig, Leipzig and University of Leiden, Leiden with the support of József Eötvös, Hungarian minister of culture. He became ''privatdozent'' at Budapest in 1872. In the next year, under the auspices of the Hungarian government, he began a journey through Syria, Palestine (region), Palestine and Egypt, and took the oppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oszkár Asbóth
Oszkár is a Hungarian masculine given name, a variant of the name Oscar. Notable people with the name include: * 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 ... (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 * Oszk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Imre Payer
Imre Payer (1 June 1888 – 15 August 1957) was a Hungarian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 6 July and 22 July 1912. The opening ceremony was he .... References External links * 1888 births 1957 deaths Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Hungary Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Footballers from Győr-Moson-Sopron County Men's association football midfielders Ferencvárosi TC footballers Wiener AC players Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Hungarian football managers Hungarian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Italy Udinese Calcio managers Győri ETO FC players Atalanta BC manager ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ildikó Horn
Ildikó is a Hungarian feminine given name of Germanic origin; its original Germanic version is Ilda or Hilda. Its meaning is "battle" or "warrior" in ancient Germanic languages. Its medieval Latin version was Ildico, which the Hungarians adopted later as Ildikó. Notable persons with that name *Ildico ( 5th century AD), Ostrogoth princess, who was accused of poisoning king Attila the Hun during their wedding night. *Ildikó Bánsági (born 1947), Hungarian actress *Ildikó Enyedi (born 1955), Hungarian filmmaker *Ildikó Erdélyi (born 1955), Hungarian long jumper *Ildikó Keresztes, Hungarian singer and actress, see Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 *Ildikó Kishonti (1947–2009), Hungarian actress *Ildikó Mádl (born 1969), Hungarian chess player *Ildikó Pécsi (1940–2020), Hungarian actress *Ildikó Schwarczenberger (1951–2015), Hungarian foil fencer * Ildikó Tóth (born 1966), Hungarian actress *Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Ildikó is a Hungarian people, Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ELTE School Of English And American Studies
The School of English and American Studies (SEAS) of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University was founded in 1886 as Department of English Language and Literature and it is located in Rákóczi út in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary. Along with the Department of English, University of Vienna, Department of English of the University of Vienna, the School of English and American Studies is one of the biggest English departments in Central Europe. History In 1886, Ágoston Trefort, the Minister of Religion and Education between 1882 and 1888 and the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1885 and 1888, asked and commissioned Arthur J. Patterson, Arthur Patterson to teach English language at the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungarian Royal University. In 1898, Arthur Yolland became the lector and later a teacher at the Hungarian Royal University. In 1924, Antal Szerb, Hungarian writer, obtained a degree in teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ágnes Heller
Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She lived, wrote and lectured in Budapest. Early life and political development Ágnes Heller was born on 12 May 1929, to Pál Heller and Angéla "Angyalka" Ligeti. They were a middle-class Jewish family. During World War II her father used his legal training and knowledge of German to help people get the necessary paperwork to emigrate from Nazi Europe. In 1944, Heller's father was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he died before the war ended. Heller and her mother managed to avoid deportation. With regard to the influence of the Holocaust on her work, Heller said: :I was always interested in the question: How could this possibly happen? How can I understand this? And this experience of the holo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Central European University
Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The university also has a non-degree research and civic engagement presence in Budapest. CEU was founded in 1991 by Hungarian-American hedge fund manager, political activist, and billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who provided it with a $250 million endowment in 2001, making the university one of the wealthiest in Europe, especially on a per-student basis. The university is considered elite and prestigious. The university was founded in Central Europe because of a perceived need for an independent and international university for the region, in light of the fall of the Socialist Bloc and concomitant democratisation. A central tenet of the university's mission is the promotion of Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper's idea of open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
