Cecília Wohl (, , aka ''Cecil Wohl''; 1862,

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– 5 September 1939, Budapest district 1) was a

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master, Budapestian salonist known as "Cecil mama", a daughter of the senior teacher of Jewish history at the

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rabbinic seminary Osher Leyzerovich Vol, and the mother of

Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964)''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, best kno ...

and

Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi ( ; ; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism is a false account of knowle ...

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* http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC11587/12321.htm * http://www.kfki.hu/chemonet/polanyi/9702/szapor.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20121001061114/http://homepage3.nifty.com/thinkers/plnykcv.htm (Japanese) 1862 births 1939 deaths

Cecilia Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. History The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for g ...

Jews from the Russian Empire Hungarian philanthropists Hungarian women philanthropists Jews from Austria-Hungary Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Austria-Hungary People from Vilnius {{Jewish-hist-stub

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