The Life-Changing Travels of Loránt Hegedüs

Working Group of Economic and Social History, Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs eBooks, 2022

Purpose of the study. Loránt Hegedüs was a remarkable historical figure in interwar Hungary. As a politician, economist, publicist, and belletrist, he influenced contemporary politics, economics, public life, literature, history, and religion. This study aims to understand the role of work in Hegedüs' life; in other words, the study provides a deeper understanding of what work meant for Hegedüs, which stood behind his extraordinary performance and productivity. In addition, the study addresses further questions as to what factors influenced Hegedüs' career choice and how, which occupation was the most significant at each stage of his life and why, as well as what his daily schedule looked like and what his working method was. Applied method. The main research question, what role work played in Hegedüs' life, was examined chronologically and systematically throughout Hegedüs' entire life story, in close interaction with the socio-cultural context. Levinson's model provided the theoretical framework of the research. The Levinsonian theory interpreted man's work as the primary base for his life in society and allowed studying individual and society (in Levinson's words self and world) together. Based on Levinson's theory, four periods of Hegedüs' life were examined. A variety of sources, Hegedüs' published writings, other contemporary publications, personal records, and a family chronicle, were used to answer the research questions. Outcomes. Work played a decisive role in Hegedüs' entire life especially in his social integration. On the one hand his exceptional abilities, his unique family (its members, financial background, social affiliation, religion) together with his upbringing, on the other hand external circumstances (changes in politics, economy, and society) shaped Hegedüs' idea and choices about work. As a result, Hegedüs established clear and strong values about work in adolescence and interpreted work as a duty owed to the community. In this context, his long-term goal was value creation, and his legacy, which he considered essential to support the next generation. Changes in the external world, especially challenges in work or limited possibilities for work, were reflected in the pattern of Hegedüs' periods of life.

Working Group of Economic and Social History, Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs eBooks, 2021

Loránt Hegedüs' oeuvre touches on a surprisingly wide spectrum of economics. Of his writings on economic policy, his drafting of consolidation in 1920 was the best-known, but he also wrote a number of works dealing with theoretical issues, and he also left his mark on the contemporary Hungarian economy as a leader or member of the management of economic and financial institutions. Hegedüs' multifaceted activities may be behind this diverse economic work, as he was an economist, politician, scientist, belletrist and publicist in one person. The study, therefore, starts from the premise that his economic activity is worth examining in a broader perspective, in connection with his other activities. Its aim is to point out the connection points between economics and his other activities. The study first examines the external conditions of Hegedüs' economic operation, namely the political and economic environment that greatly influenced the development of his career. It then presents the circumstances of Hegedüs' career choice, the individuals (family members and professors) who influenced him; in the meantime, it also points to the origins of some of his important economic ideas in connection with his studies. The study analyzes the consequences of Hegedüs' versatility on his economic work by analyzing specific examples (the issue of emigration, his economic reconstruction plan). Among other things, it concludes that not only Hegedüs' diverse activities played a decisive role in the development of his oeuvre in economics, but also that he had experience in both theory and practice, and that the latter was decisive.

Art Journal, 2007

Živa Antika, 2018

Iter Buda Hadrianopolim is a travelogue written by the Croatian humanist Antun Vrančić (1504-1573), in which the author describes his diplomatic journey that took place in 1553. Although his final destination was Constantinople, the travelogue has been preserved fragmentarily, covering the section from Buda to present day Turkish city of Edirne. During his journey, Vrančić had the opportunity to see a large number of cities, forts, villages, rivers and mountains. Numerous digressions and descriptions, especially of the customs of people, and interpretations of toponyms, hydronyms and oronyms make this travelogue very interesting. The aim of this paper is to review Iter Buda Hadrianopolim as a literary work, and to show that although it lacks the description of the last leg of the journey for unknown reasons, this travelogue contains most of the key elements of the travelogue literary genre (the narrator who states the time and place of the journey, a specified reason for the journey and the person who commissioned it, a specific itinerary, digressions, educational elements, narrative and descriptive passages), so it can undoubtedly be counted as a real, non-fictional travelogue.

Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review, 2014

Travel has a long and complicated history, and has always been an experience observed from the European point of view. A journey is more than just a walk from A to B, it’s a bildungsroman, and it’s an identity interplay between us and others, because, in most of the cases, travel is an initiatic journey for self-knowledge, self-worth, and recognition. Confronted with the reality of the other we cannot help ourselves from comparing what we see or fell, hear, smell, with the familiar without pointing out the differences, the strange. Our study aims to analyze the types of travel writings by the Romanians who, for various reasons, journeyed into the East, starting from the Near East (the Ottoman Empire).

Paths of knowledge in antiquity, 2018

Messene was unusual among ancient poleis. It was one of the few major settlements on the Greek mainland to be founded in the Hellenistic period. Moreover, on account of this, its claim to a culturally authoritative past rooted in the mythic period could not rest on suppositions about the continuity of knowledge handed down through the continuation of civic, cultic, and communal institutions. This chapter examines how Pausanias' account of Messenia (book four of his Periegesis) approaches this dilemma by making knowledge both an artefact preserved unchanged in texts, and a conceptual possession encountered and attained through travel. It goes on to argue that the interplay between these two forms of knowledge is specifically relevant to this text, since the Periegesis also serves as a fixed, written object, which nonetheless offers opportunities for autonomous exploration and experience to the hodological reader-traveler.

Monatshefte, 2004

Classical autobiographical travel reports are structured along four variables. An identifiable subject (1) travels to foreign countries (2), and offers his readers at home (3) a written report of his experience (4). 1 Alexander von Humboldt's Relation historique du Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent (1814-1831) distorts this model by challenging each of these four basic elements: the author as a narrator and protagonist, the country as a topic, the reading public as an audience and the report itself as a literary text. Who is speaking here, about what, to whom, and how? 1. Subject Who is writing? Who is speaking? And about whose experience? Who is the author, the narrator, and the protagonist? Do all three really fuse in the figure "Alexander von Humboldt," as history and biography would lead us to assume, as the conventional form of the travel narrative seems to demand, and as most readers expect? Who are the subjects of the Relation historique.. . ? The text's 'signature' already spells out the problems with its ascription. 2 The Relation historique.. . 3 is the "Première Partie," or volumes one, two and three, embedded in a 29-volume work, 4 the title of which establishes a collective authorship: Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent fait en 1799

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