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Joseph Berenyi

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* Ekecs, 1967. June 6. / teacher, politician ; ; Graduated from Po. (1985), obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian-history at the Comenius University BTK, studied political science at the Department of Political Science of the Central European University in bp. (1993–94), t... Read More

Alexander Berko

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* Losonc, 1918. Feb. 13. – † Ukraine, 1943. ? / poet, publicist, translator ; ; He wrote poems as a student. His first writings were published in the local newspapers of Losonc (Indulás, Losonci Hírlap, Magyar Híradó). He was initiated as a poet by Korunk, where he sent his poems... Read More

Bertha Mária, Mrs. Orbán Jánosné, O. Bertha Mária

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Bratislava, 1952. Nov. 25. / editor, translator ; ; He earned a Hungarian-English teaching diploma from the Comenius University BTK (1976). In 1976–77 he was a specialist lecturer at the Slovak Monuments and Nature Conservation Office, and in 1977–79 he was the language editor of... Read More

Imre Bertok

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* Kéménd, 1922. Aug. 30. – † Bratislava, 1994. Jun. 7. / textbook writer, linguist ; ; He graduated from Ipolyság, and obtained a Hungarian-Slovak teaching certificate from the Pedagogical College in Poznań (1956). He taught in Kéménd, then was a district inspector in Párkány and... Read More

Oscar Bethlen

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* Bratislava, 13 Sept. 1909 – † Budapest, 20 Jan. 1969 / journalist, historian ; ; He came to Budapest at a young age, and after graduating from high school he became an electrician. He was an official of the communist youth organization in Budapest. He was sentenced to prison an... Read More

Stephen Bettes

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* Rimaszombat, 15 Aug. 1954 / poet ; ; He was raised in the village of Zádor, with his grandparents, until he was fifteen. He graduated from a chemical technical school in Po., and in 1981 he obtained an archivist’s degree from the Comenius University BTK. After that, he first ta... Read More

Judge Lucian

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* Zsitvaújfalu, 1898. Apr. 4. – † Komárom, 1990. May. 15. / Benedictine monk, publicist, newspaper editor, textbook writer ; ; He completed his theological studies in Pannonhalma, and also obtained a Hungarian-Latin teacher's qualification. In the two decades after the 1918 revol... Read More

Béla Mudrák, the “honey legend” of the Hungarian Highlands

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* 1930, Bátorkeszi - † 2007, Esztergom / intarsia maker, beekeeper, master carpenter ; ; The former master carpenter, intarsia maker, beekeeper was born in Bátorkeszi in 1930. After the war, he became an apprentice to a skilled carpenter. Later, he also learned to make musical in... Read More

Paul Fecso

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* Košice, 1933. Jan. 2. – † Torna, 2004. Jan. 3. / journalist, poet ; ; He finished his schooling in Torná, Košice, Budapest and Komárom, where he graduated in 1953, and obtained a teaching certificate at the pedagogical high school in Rožňov. From 1955 he taught in Tornagörgő, f... Read More

Ferenc Feher

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* Salgótarján, 1885. Jun. 10. – † Vác, 1952. Apr. 7. / journalist, editor, writer ; ; He came from a poor peasant family. In 1903 he became a member of the Socialist Democratic Party of Mo. In the early 1910s he was the director of the workers' insurance fund in Turócszentmárton,... Read More