Abafalva

Angel Nicholas

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* Nyitra, 1925. Oct. 28. / ethnographic and local history writer ; ; He graduated from the Hungarian Royal State Pázmány Péter Gymnasium in Érsekújvár (1944), then worked as a railwayman (1944–45). Later, he worked at the Spice Paprika Cooperative, and after its nationalization, ... Read More

Tibor Babi, Poczkody

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* Báb, 1925. Oct. 30. – † Bratislava, 1978. Jun. 23. / poet, translator, editor ; ; He attended school in his native village and Vágtornóc, completed high school in Érsekújvár and Bp., and from 1949 he was a student at the Prague College of Economics. In 1951 he enrolled at the P... Read More

Zsofia Barczi

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* Rimaszombat, 13 July 1973. / writer, literary historian ; ; In 1996, he obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian and music at the Pedagogical College in Nitra. He is currently a lecturer at the Konstantin Philosophical University in Nitra and a doctoral student at ELTE. – H... 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

Krista White

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* Vágsellye, 1979. Feb. 23. / poet, writer ; ; In 2002, he graduated from the Konstantin Philosophical University in Nyitra, Department of Hungarian Culturology. He is currently a doctoral student at ELTE. ; ; His poems were included in the Pegasus Generation's 1997 anthology Ang... Read More

Alexander White

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* Alsóbodok, 1967. Apr. 2. / local history, ethnographic writer, poet ; ; He graduated from the Udvard Agricultural Vocational High School (1986), then obtained an agricultural engineering diploma from the Nitra Agricultural College (1991). Later, he studied ecology at the Konsta... Read More

Alexander White

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* April 2, 1967, Alsóbodok / University teacher, ecologist, museum founder, local history researcher, poet ; ; Sándor Fehér (doc. Ing. PhD.) University teacher was born in Alsóbodok in 1967, currently lives in Pográny. He completed his studies in Alsóbodok, Pográny, Udvard and Ni... Read More

Baron of Királyfiai János Jeszenák

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* 22 January 1800, Bratislava - † 10 October 1849, Pest, Budapest / politician, government commissioner, chieftain, martyr of the 1848–49 revolution and war of independence, Lutheran church district inspector, great-grandfather of János Esterházy ; ; Baron János Jeszenák (IV.) wa... Read More

Imre Erdosi

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* 1814. November 4. Nitra - † 1890. January 9. Nitra / Piarist monk, teacher, camp chaplain in the 1848-49 War of Independence, the "hero of Braniszko" ; ; Imre Erdősi (original name Poleszni) was born into a bourgeois family. His father, Ambrus Poleszni, was a shoemaker in Nitra... Read More

Gyula Madocsányi, Jr.

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* Pográny - †  Pográny / county chieftain, member of parliament ; ; The son of the forty-eight-year-old hero Viktor Jánoky and the brother of Imre Jánoky, Gyula Jánoky-Madocsányi Sr. (he also took the name Madocsányi with special permission). Gyula Jánoky-Madocsányi Sr. was the l... Read More