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The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part III

‘Linguistic–ethnic nationalism is the quintessential negative (in Joó’s parlance, “imperialist”) nationalism, a nationalism insensitive to qualitative differences or to more elevated spiritual concepts of the state, such as the unifying “Hungarus consciousness” of the nomadic empire’s supranationalism, which derives from…
Meeting of Francis II Rákóczi and Tamás Esze

When the Hungarians Took Their Fate into Their Own Hands, Defying the Might of Europe — Rákóczi’s War of Independence

Two important events played a role in Rákóczi’s return to Hungary in 1703. On the one hand, the unfolding War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), which meant the withdrawal of most of the imperial regiments from the country, and on…

Wonders, Treasures, Mysteries: A Visit to the Renovated Festetics Palace in Dég

The history of the palace in Dég, Hungary is not only intertwined with that of the Festetics family, but also with Freemasonry in Hungary, as the palace’s builder, Antal Festetics, was the right-hand man of the movement’s Master Chief in…

The Triumph of the Hungarian Heart Over the Ottoman Crescent — 471 Years Since the Siege of Eger

For generations, the heroic deeds of the defenders of the Eger Castle have given the Hungarian people strength and fortitude. Although the area under Ottoman occupation expanded and, in the following years, the Sultan managed to reassuringly stabilize his presence…
Portrait of Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces.

Going Through Living Hell for Their Faith — The Story of Hungarian Protestant Galley Slaves

The Habsburg Court regarded Protestantism simply as the ideological expression of the nobility, that is, the ‘spirit of rebellion’. In addition, it was part of the absolutist thinking of the era that only a mono-religious country could be politically united….
A scene of a 1965 performance of the theatre adaptation of the book Very Merry by Zsigmond Móricz.

The Bison and the Serval: Nobility and Capitalist Transition in Italian and Hungarian Literature

With culture and identity often taking centre stage in politics nowadays, economic issues are also increasingly looked at from a cultural point of view. In order to gain a better understanding of present-day social clashes, it is important to examine…
A portrait of József Kőrösy (unknown author) from 1906.

József Kőrösy, the Hungarian Jewish Father of Modern Statistics

In 1869, the new statistical office of the capital was created, headed by Kőrösy. A few years later, he started to teach statistics in Budapest, the very first person to do so in Hungary. In 1896, he became a doctor…

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