Hungary: - Deepness

Hungary - deepness

1. Our History

Our architecture

Imre Steindl: Parliament • Budapest

Ödön Lechner: Arts and Crafts Museum • Budapest

Miklós Ybl: Hungarian State Opera House • Budapest

Alfréd Hajós: Hostel Aranybika • Debrecen

The Reformed Church of Debrecen

Abbey of Tihany

Abbey of Pannonhalma

FAMOUS HUNGARIAN INVENTORS

1. Oszkár Asbóth and Tódor Kármán – helicopter (1928)

2. Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, Károly Zipernovszky – transformator (1885)

3. János Irinyi – matches (1836)

4. László Biró – ball point pen (1930)

5. Rudolf Frommer – Frommerpistols (1901)

6. Tivadar Puskás – invented the ancestor of radio by broadcasting news through telephone-lines(1982) − the origin of “hallo” : it comes from the Hungarian expression “hallom” (=”I can hear”) and has started to be used all over the world

7. Dávid Schwartz – airship (“zeppelin”) (1896) − Earl Zeppelin has bought the invention of David Schwartz from his widow and then, Zeppelin has become world-famous by these airships

8. Albert Szent-Györgyi – Vitamin C (1930s); he has got Nobel Price for inventing it

9. János Kemény – BASIClanguage in the field of computers

11. Ányos Jedlik – dynamo and soda water

12. Kálmán Kandó – electric locomotive

13. Ede Teller – fusion bomb

14. Ernő Rubik – “Rubik-kocka” (Rubik-cube) (1975)

Hungarian Arts

Music Ferenc Liszt virtuoso pianist and composer

• Zoltán Kodály Hungarian composer,ethnomusic ologist,educator He was the creator of the Kodály method.

• Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music.

Painting Mihály Munkácsy

Yawning groom

The Trilogy Christ ahead of Pilate

Ecce Homo! That’s him the man!

Golgota

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Seashore city

The ruins of the Terminainan greek thetre

Viktor Vasarelly

Sports and Hungary

- a world power in sports even if its territory is small - Olympic Games: 157 golden medals; Hungary is the 7th in the rank of nations

1. Football

the Hungarian “Golden Team”:

- 1952: Olympic champions - 1953: England-Hungary 3:6 → the match of the century: the English team was defeated by Hungary!! 1954: Germany-Hungary → Hungary was defeated by the Germans in the final of the World Cup; Hungary won the silver medal only (“the miracle of Bern”; the Germans were surprised at the defeat of Hungary)

Ferenc Puskás/”Puskás Öcsi”: world-famous Hungarian football player successes: - Hungarian champion (5x), Spanish champion (6x), winner of world cup, Olympic champion his records: the most goals in one match (7), the most goals in one season (50), the 3rd most efficient football player in the 20th century (489 goals)

2. Boxing Laci Papp: - 3 golden medals in Olympic Games - he is regarded to be approximately as great in boxing as Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali

3. Water polo - effective for 80 years continuously - Olympic champions (7x), world champions (1x), European champions (12x) - Crucial: Olympic Games in Melbourne, 1956 - Hungary-Soviet Union Olympic water polo match: "A bloody war that spilled into the pool."

4. Other water sports: swimming + kayak-canoe

Let’s see what YOU think about us! - and what we think about ourselves

Results of our research

Open Honest Good at arts Hard-working Temperamental

YES

NO

don’t know

Foreign students / Hungarians

Foreign students / Hungarians

Foreign students / Hungarians

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Lazy Slow Dishonest Corrupt Undeveloped

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NO

I don’t know

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Brave Conscientious Reliable Ambitious Have a good talent for languages

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Tell lies in business No work moral Thieves Gipsies Pessimistic

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Intelligent Good cuisine Patient Family corporate feeling Domestic (house proud)

5/4 4/6 2/1 3/3 4/5

0/1 0/0 0/4 1/1 0/0

1/1 2/0 4/1 2/2 2/1

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Disorganised Complain a lot Unreliable Selfish Envious

Friendly, sociable Convergent (keep together)

Nationalist Loyal Creative

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Part of the Eastern block Indirect Pushing Revengeful Money-minded

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Other carachteristics mentioned by others: • beautiful women (2) • don’t like to have fun • boring • sad • gloomy face • good music • care a lot about their traditions and history

Other carachteristics mentioned by us: • lack of self-trust • uninterested, indifferent • loss of faith • divided • culture • good music • deepness • special history • exploration

Sorrow? A great ocean. Joy? A little pearl of the ocean. Perhaps By the time I fish it up I may break it.

Thank you!