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Hubay is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ilona Hubay (1902–1982), Hungarian specialist in ancient books * Jenő Hubay Jenő Hubay von Szalatna ( ; 15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary ... (1858–1937), Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher {{surname Hungarian-language surnames ...
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Jenő Hubay
Jenő Hubay von Szalatna ( ; 15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary. He adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French-speaking world. Hubay was trained in violin and music by his father, (''Károly Huber'', later ') from Varjas (), concertmaster of the Hungarian Royal Opera House and a teacher at the Budapest College of Music. His mother was of Italian descent. He gave his début public performance playing a concerto at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen, Hubay began his studies in Berlin. He remained there for five years, receiving instruction from Joseph Joachim. In 1878, following the advice of Franz Liszt, he made his début in Paris, which was a great success. Sitting in the audience was Henri Vieuxtemps, with whom Hubay formed an i ...
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Ilona Hubay
Ilona Hubay (July 1, 1902 – June 20, 1982) was a Hungarian specialist in incunabula (pre-1501 printed books) and other early printed books. After her secondary studies in Pécs, she studied art history at the University of Budapest, where she received a doctorate in 1938. She worked as a librarian in the National Széchényi Library of Hungary, where she was a curator and cataloguer of the Apponyi collection, becoming a head librarian in 1945. In 1951, she was deported by the Communist authorities to a ranch near Szeged, together with her mother. In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial Landesbibliothek Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a cataloguer of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. Most famous is her survey of existing copies of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, ''Die bekannten Exemplare der zweiundvierzigzeiligen Bibel und ihre Besitzer'' (1985). 47 copies, and their owners, were identified. Afte ...
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Hungarian Surname
Hungarian names include surnames and given names. Some people have more than one given name, but only one is normally used. In the Hungarian language, whether written or spoken, names are invariably given in the "Eastern name order", with the family name followed by the given name (in foreign-language texts in languages that use Western name order, names are often given with the family name last). Hungarian is one of the few national languages in Europe to use the Eastern name order, like Chinese names, Chinese, Japanese names, Japanese, Korean names, Korean, Vietnamese names, Vietnamese, Cambodian name, Khmer and some Basque names, Basque nationalists. Orthography Although Hungarian alphabet, Hungarian orthography is now simpler than it was in the 18th and the 19th centuries, many Hungarians still use the old spelling for their names. For example, the letter ''c'' is often written as ''cz''. Letters such as ''q'', ''w'', ''x'' and ''y'' are usually seen only in foreign words bu ...
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