Debrecen is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and it is one of the Hungarian people's most important cultural centres. Debrecen was also the capital city of Hungary during the revolution in 1848–1849. During the revolution, the dethronement of the Habsburg dynasty was declared in the Reformed Great Church. The city also served as the capital of Hungary by the end of World War II in 1944–1945. It is home to the University of Debrecen.
Mihály Fazekas was a Hungarian writer from Debrecen. He was an army private for seven years before being commissioned as a Hussar officer. As a hobby, Fazekas studied the natural sciences (botany) and wrote poetry. His poetry expressed his disgust with warfare and violence, and brought to light the social injustices of his society.
The University of Debrecen is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its establishment in 1538. The university has a well established programme in the English language for international students, particularly in the Medical and Engineering field, which first established education in English in 1886. There are nearly 6000 international students studying at the university.
Polányi, Polanyi is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family, illustrated in the following family tree:
József Kürschák was a Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations. He proved that every valued field can be embedded into a complete valued field which is algebraically closed. In 1918 he proved that the sum of reciprocals of consecutive natural numbers is never an integer. Extending Hilbert's argument, he proved that everything that can be constructed using a ruler and a compass, can be constructed by using a ruler and the ability of copying a fixed segment. He was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1897. He was one of the main organisers of mathematics competitions, for example, Eötvös Loránd mathematics competition.
The Teleki family is an old Hungarian noble family whose members, for centuries, occupied many important positions in the Principality of Transylvania, in the Holy Roman Empire and later in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sándor is a Hungarian given name and surname. It is the Hungarian form of Alexander.
Szabó is a common Hungarian surname, meaning "tailor". In 2019, it occurred in 203,126 names, making it the fourth most frequent Hungarian surname.
Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium is a high school in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past 40 years it has built up a reputation for excellence, especially in mathematics and in the exact sciences.
Hilda Pintér is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1950s. She won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon. She was born on September 14, 1933, in Budapest, Hungary. She left Hungary in 1956. She married in Basel, Switzerland in 1957 Franz Salamon, Dr.-Ing. (Franz A. Salamon, Ph.D., Dr.-Ing., Biography: born on February 8, 1932, in Budapest, Hungary. Father Austrian, mother Hungarian. Deported to Bavaria/Germany in 1944. Returned to Hungary with his parents in 1946. Maturity at the "Fazekas Mihàly Gimnazium" in Budapest in 1950. Diploma from the Budapesti Müszaki Egyetem as Mechanical Engineer in 1954. Electrical Engineer in 1956. Escaped from Hungary in November 1956 after the revolution. He married in Basel, Switzerland in June 1957, with Pintér Hilda, Kayak-2 world champion in 1954 in Macon, France. Worked in Switzerland from 1956 to 1960. Worked at SHELL in The Hague/The Netherlands from 1960 to 1962. Worked for Du Pont de Nemours in the US and in Europe from 1962 to 1990. Started as Technical Rep., followed as Techn. Manager, Product Mgr., Customer Service Mgr., Director of Corporate Planning, Corporate Waste Management. As employee of Du Pont, invented the "Fishtail Guide", for the waste free production of the Teflon PTFE unsintered tape. Developed the membrane of Teflon, known as Gore-Tex. Produced the first Fiber Optics as Crofon. From 1990, he is working as independent consultant. Chief executive officer of Dinatar S.A. in 1995 in Geneva. President and CEO of TEDE S.A./Zug/Switzerland in 2004. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He won the International Honda NSX Trophy in 2000, 2001, and 2002. She gave birth to their son Jörg in Basel in 1958. She became Swiss in 1972. She won the K-1 Swiss Championship in 1968. Since 1979 she is living in Geneva, Switzerland.
Groth is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
György Elekes was a Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem. He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. With Micha Sharir he set up a framework which eventually led Guth and Katz to the solution of the Erdős distinct distances problem.
Székely is a Hungarian language surname. The word "Székely" refers to Hungarian people from the historical region of Transylvania, Romania.
Oláh or Olah is a Hungarian language surname, which means "Romanian", derived from the word volách, and from that vlach, meaning "Italian" or "speaker of a Romance language".
Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium may refer to:
Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium is a high school in Debrecen, Hungary.
Péter Gervai is a Hungarian IT development engineer, the founder of the Hungarian Wikipedia and the chair of Wikimedia Hungary. He was one of the pioneers of Internet culture in Hungary, as operator of the LifeForce BBS and the author of a snarky webpage about chain emails which was widely used to educate senders of such mail.
Csaba Tőri is a musical conductor, music teacher and founding member of the Moltopera Company. He is a winner of the Rezső Lantos-prize.
Lévai, Levai, Levaï, Lévay or Levay is a Hungarian Jewish surname, originating from the Israelite surnames Levi and Levy.
