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A portrait of Zsuzsanna Kossuth from 1848 (detail, Wikimedia Commons)

The Heroine of Field Hospitals — The Life and Work of Zsuzsanna Kossuth

Zsuzsanna Kossuth was Lajos Kossuth’s youngest sister, who, similarly to her revolutionary leader brother, was a devoted and selfless patriot. In April 1848 she set out to establish field hospitals to provide medical aid to soldiers wounded during the freedom…

Celebrating Reformation Day — The Calvinian Traits on the Face of the Hungarian Nation

Protestants played an irreplaceable role in the formation of Hungarian literary language, as well as in the renewal of the language. It is no coincidence that Ferenc Kölcsey, who wrote the Hungarian National Anthem in 1823, was a student at…
Execution of the Martyrs of Arad by János Thorma.

6 October, a Day of Remembrance and a Day of Mourning

‘Among the executed were counts and commoners, descendants of Croatian and Serbian border guard families, imperial Germans, and native Armenians. Some were connected to the Hungarian cause by family ties, others by their unit or simply by their wealth and…
Jean Godefroy, The Congress of Vienna (1819). Museu Histório e Diplomático – Palácio do Itamaraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sovereign Yet Confederal?

‘The ideological models that had emerged at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries…had transformed social thinking and humanity’s view of the world to such an extent that it was impossible to maintain and preserve the earlier, semi-feudal Europe….
István Széchenyi at the Iron Gates of the Danube River (painting by József Schöfft after Ágoston Schöfft, 1836)

Afrikaners and Hungarians: Inspiration from the Life of István Széchenyi

‘We have come to learn that in Hungary there is some (healthy) debate about the balance between fighting for freedom and building for freedom. This debate should not be regarded as a choice between two mutually exclusive paths, but rather…

15 March — Hungarian National Holiday Marked at US Capitol

Hungarian Ambassador to the US Szabolcs Takács and US Representative Carol Miller of West Virginia spoke at the event commemorating the 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight at Lajos Kossuth’s bust in the US Capitol building….
Hungarians take part in a demonstration for the autonomy of the Transylvanian territory in Romania in Budapest, Hungary on 27 October 2013.

Let Transylvania Be Again What It Once Was! — Reflections on Szekler Freedom Day

‘On 10 March this year, the author of these lines has only one wish: that a miracle may happen in the modern, so-called democratic Romania, and it may become like it was in the 1950s, or even like in the…
Kossuth drives up Broadway on 6 December 1851.

Lajos Kossuth: a Hungarian Hero Celebrated in America

Renowned Hungarian revolutionary and statesman Lajos Kossuth arrived on the shores of the United States on 6 December 1851. He was received by a warm welcome and outpour of enthusiasm, from the highest ranking politicians and the ‘common folk’ alike,…

‘Aspiration for freedom is a value that Hungary and the United States share’ — An Interview with Sándor Végh, Chairman of the Kossuth Foundation

‘We are very lucky to have a building, a home, which belongs to every Hungarian person and organization. I started to encourage the small communities to participate in our events or use the building for theirs. We aim to become…
General János Lenkey, martyr of the 1848–49 Revolution and Freedom Fight.

János Lenkey: The Forgotten Martyr of the War of Independence

The 13 martyrs of the 1848–49 Hungarian War of Independence are commemorated on 6 October every year. However, the struggle for independence had other, forgotten heroes, too, like General János Lenkey, the ‘14th martyr of Arad’….

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