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Singer And Wolfner
Sandor Singer and Jozsef Wolfner founded ''Singer and Wolfner'' Book Publisher and Bookstore in 1885. It was one of the largest and most successful of Hungarian publishers. History During the decades following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and as a result of economic developments, limited liability publishing companies began to be formed. These became the business model for book and paper publishing in Hungary due to easier access to larger investment capital than the existing smaller businesses. The ''Singer and Wolfner'' publishing company was formed in 1885. Its founding members were Sandor Singer, and Jozsef Wolfner, who assumed the role of CEO. They changed their firm into the form of a limited liability company in 1923. Starting in 1943 it began to function as ''Új idők Irodalmi Intézet Részvénytársasag'' (New Times Literary Institute Ltd.). Their work The success of the company was due primarily to its concentration on child- and youth-literature, as wel ...
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Jozsef Wolfner
Jozsef Wolfner ( Arad, June 5, 1856; Budapest, February 16, 1932) was a Hungarian publisher, founder of the publishing house Singer and Wolfner. "''He was a bourgeois, and in Hungary there are bourgeois, proletarians and Bohemians, but the real bourgeois is not common. Wolfner was a real bourgeois whose lifestyle was the dignity and enthusiasm for his job. He perfectly adhered to Baudelaire’s expression that stated: "You have to work, because work is less boring than fun." Well, Wolfner was a man who was never bored. His life was dedicated to design and creativity''". - From Ferenc Herceg’s memorial speech Life We know very little about Jozsef Wolfner’s life. In 1885, after completing his university studies, he founded along with Sandor Singer the publishing house ''Singer and Wolfner'' which was mainly devoted to literary works for children. In 1923 Wolfner transformed the publishing house into a joint stock company assuming the role of President and Director. ''Singer a ...
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Singer és Wolfner Könyvesháza, Budapest, Andrássy út 16
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or as a ...
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Austro-Hungarian Compromise Of 1867
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (german: Ausgleich, hu, Kiegyezés) established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary, being separate from, but no longer subject to, the Austrian Empire. The compromise put an end to the 18-year-long military dictatorship and absolutist rule over Hungary which Emperor Franz Joseph had instituted after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Hungary was restored. The agreement also restored the old historic constitution of the Kingdom of Hungary. Hungarian political leaders had two main goals during the negotiations. One was to regain the traditional status (both legal and political) of the Hungarian state, which had been lost after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The other was to restore the series of reform laws (the so-called April Laws) of the revolutionary parliament of 1848, ...
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Ferenc Herczeg
Ferenc Herczeg (born ''Franz Herzog'', 22 September 1863 in Versec, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire – 24 February 1954 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Career He founded and edited the magazine ''Új Idők ("New Times")'' in 1895. In 1896, he was elected to parliament, and in 1901, he became the president of the Petőfi Society. ''Dream Country'' (1912), one of his more prominent novels, tells how the love affair of an American business magnate and a Hungarian adventuress ends in jealousy and murder in the course of a yacht tour from Athens and Istanbul to Venice. In 1925, 1926 and 1927, he was nominated for the Nobel prize for ''The Gates of Life'' (1919), a historical novel about archbishop Tamás Bakócz, the only Hungarian aspirant to the papal throne, set in 16th-century Rome. One major recurring theme of his no ...
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Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler (3 August 1863 – 30 October 1922) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with '' Eclipse of the Crescent Moon'' and ''Slave of the Huns''. Life Gárdonyi was born in Agárdpuszta, Kingdom of Hungary, the son of a machinist on the estate of an aristocrat in Western Hungary. He graduated from at a college for teachers and worked for some years as a teacher and Catholic cantor. He married Mária Molnár in 1885, but their marriage was unhappy, and they separated in 1892. Gárdonyi's career as a writer started off when he began writing for magazines and newspapers in the mid-1880s. His first successes were the satirical "Göre Gábor" letters on rural life, works which he later repudiated. Around the turn of the century, he started to tackle historical themes in writing, which resulted in a series of fine novels. He moved to Eger (today's ...
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Sándor Bródy (writer)
Sándor Bródy (23 July 1863 in Eger – 12 August 1924) was a Hungarian author and journalist. Biography Bródy was born in Eger, Hungary. His family was Jewish. After attending the schools of Eger he devoted himself entirely to literature. From 1888 to 1890 he was editor of the "'' Erdélyi Híradó''", published at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca), and was also connected with the "'' Erdélyi Képes Ujság''" and the political daily "'' Magyarság''". Since 1890 he was a member of the "''Magyar Hírlap''", and since 1882 a prolific contributor of articles, feuilletons, stories, and novels to the leading literary publications of Hungary. In his works he depicts the dark side of life, and is a disciple of the modern French realistic school. In 1995, the literary award :Sándor Bródy prize recognizing the best first novel of the year published in Hungarian was established in his honor by his grandson, the :Hungarian American Alexander Brody.Bródy Sándor utca nam ...
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Ignotus
Hugó Veigelsberg (2 November 1869, Pest – 3 August 1949, Budapest) was a noted Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus (Latin for "unknown"). He was distinguished for the lyric individuality of his poems, stories, and sociological works. In addition to "Ignotus", he also wrote under the pseudonyms "Dixi," "Pató Pál," and "Tar Lorincz". His works include ''A Slemil Keservei'' (1891), ''Versek'' (1894), ''Vallomások'' (1900), and ''Végzet'', a translation of a novel by the Dutch author Louis Couperus. He also founded the literary magazine ''Nyugat''. His father was the journalist Leó Veigelsberg, and his son Pál (Paul) Ignotus (1901–1978) was a journalist and writer who worked for the BBC during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—includi ...
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István Farkas (painter)
István Farkas (October 20, 1887 in Budapest; died in the July 1944 in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a Hungarian painter, publisher and victim of the Holocaust. Life István Farkas's father Jozsef Wolfner (1856-1932), a prominent art collector, was the founder of the book publishing house ''Singer and Wolfner''. István’s mother, Anna Goldberger, died when he was four years old. As an adult István changed his family name from Wolfner (the German word for wolf) to Farkas (the Hungarian word for wolf). The painter László Mednyánszky was Farkas’ first art teacher in Budapest. After receiving an education from the painters of the Nagybánya artists' colony he moved to Paris in 1912, entered the painter's circle of the Cubists of the Académie de La Palette and became friends with André Salmon who later wrote a monograph about him. In 1914 he joined the Austro-Hungarian army as a lieutenant. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. In 1923, ...
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Géza Maróti
Géza Maróti (1875-1941) was a Hungarian architect, sculptor, painter, and applied artist.
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Maróti was from a rural merchant family and began his career as a woodcarver but later went on to complete studies in and . He settled in Zebegeny before the outbreak of

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István Tisza
Count István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged (archaically anglicized Stephen Emery Louis Paul Tisza, in short Stephen Tisza; 22 April 1861 – 31 October 1918) was a Hungarian politician, prime minister, political scientist, international lawyer, macroeconomist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and champion duelist. The outbreak of World War One defined his second term as prime minister. He was assassinated by leftist revolutionaries on 31 October 1918 during the Aster Revolution, the day Hungary declared its independence, dissolving the Dual Monarchy or Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tisza was the most zealous adherent of the Dual Monarchy among the Hungarian political leaders and pleaded for consensus between liberals and conservatives. As a Member of Parliament since 1887, he came to fear a political impasse in the conflict between the unyielding temper of the Emperor and the revolutionary spirit of the extremists. Tisza stubbornly opposed on princ ...
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Kálmán Mikszáth
Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó (16 January 1847 – 28 May 1910) was a widely reputed Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician. His work remains in print in Hungarian and still appears from time to time in other languages. Biography Mikszáth was born in Szklabonya (also known as Sklabiná or Szlabonya),In parentheses are official names valid and used in 1808–1863 Upper Hungary (now Sklabiná, Slovakia) into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied law at the University of Budapest from 1866 to 1869, although he did not apply for any exam, and became involved in journalism, writing for many Hungarian newspapers including the '. Mikszáth's early short stories were based on the lives of peasants and artisans and had little appeal at the time. However, they demonstrated his skill in crafting humorous anecdotes, which would be developed in his later, more popular works. Many of his novels contained social commentary and satire, and towards the end of his life they b ...
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