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John Hubner

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* 1836. April 28., Nagylévárd, Bratislava vm. † 1912. December 20., Esztergom / canon ; ; He completed his secondary school in Mosonmagyaróvár and Bratislava, his humanities in Nagyszombat, and his theology in Esztergom. 1859. V. 1: he was ordained a priest in Szenic. Chaplain in... Read More

Gyula Nemeth

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* February 12, 1949, Naszvad - † December 6, 2020, Naszvad / cultural organizer, poet, publicist ; ; Gyula Németh, poet, publicist, cultural organizer. He worked in minority public education in the Upper Hungary for a long time, as the Komárom district secretary of the Csemadok. ... Read More

István Kossanyi

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István Kossányi was born on December 13, 1909 in Szentpéter (Komárom district). His parents - grandmother and grandfather - both taught at the local elementary school. The Kossányi family is highly regarded in the village office's brochure and in the village. My grandparents Alaj... Read More

László Pém, the folk poet and farmer

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* June 9, 1877, Marcelháza - † May 23, 1946, Marcelháza / folk poet and farmer ; ; In our series following the forgotten personalities of our region, we present László Pém Pálmai from Marcelháza, folk poet and farmer, who was born on June 9, 1877 in Marcelháza. He comes from a re... Read More

Sándor Lebó's life journey rich in human values

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* March 3, 1907, Naszvad – † 1990, Bácsbokod / public figure ; ; When researching the famous people of our region, it is almost obligatory to get acquainted with Sándor Lebó, born on March 3, 1907, who lived the first forty years of his life in Naszvad, and then the other forty o... Read More

Tibor Ág, Obenau

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* Bratislava, 13 Apr. 1928 – † Nagymegyer, 29 August 2013 / folk music collector, conductor, specialist writer ; ; He graduated from high school in his hometown and earned a degree in humanities from the Komenský University in Poznań. From 1953, he was a member and leader of vari... Read More

Gregory Agocs

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* Érsekújvár, 1969. Oct. 27. / folk music collector, folk music writer, folk musician ; ; After graduating from the Construction Vocational School in Losonc (1987), he studied at the Technical College in Košice (1987–1988), and then graduated in ethnography from the ELTE Faculty ... Read More

Peter Aich

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* Bratislava, 30 Sept. 1942 / poet, prose writer, editor, teacher ; ; After finishing the Hungarian primary school in Zoch Street, Poznań (1956), he graduated from the Eleven-Year Secondary School in Bratislava-Ligetfalu (1959). He then worked as an assistant and assistant teache... Read More

Laszlo Aixinger, Jr.

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* Bratislava, 6 Aug. 1883 – † ibid., 22 Mar. 1944. / journalist, editor, politician ; ; Graduated in law. First a judge, from 1920 editor of the Pozsony News, from 1930 national director of the National Christian Socialist Party, then of the United Hungarian Party. He was preside... Read More

Ferenc Alaban

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* Guszona, 25 Feb. 1951. / literary critic, literary historian, associate professor ; ; Graduated from Füleken (1969), obtained a Hungarian-Slovak teaching certificate at the ELTE Faculty of Literature in Budapest (1974). He defended his candidate's thesis at the Faculty of Liter... Read More