A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 24. 1997 (Debrecen, 1997)
Tanulmányok - Antal Tamás: Az ifjú Sesztina Jenő
130 Antal Tamás: Az ifjú Sesztina Jenő lives of statesmen, historical celebrities, or even artists, creative persons, thinkers. In spite of this there are such that are not mentioned in the specialist literature, although they are outstanding personalities, their names are sometimes known, however, hardly anyone is exactly aware of their significance: In the majority of cases they are merchant-citizens. The author would like to lessen this deficiency somewhat with the present study, and set a memorial to one of the most considerable Hungarian citizens of the bourgeois-era -more exactly — of the first half of the 20th century. Courtyard” Chairman of the Debrecen Chamber of Trade and Commerce, as delegate of all Chambers of Hungary member of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament, as well as Chairman of the Hungarian National Commercial Association, Honorary Chairman of the National Society of Hardware Traders and Craftsmen and the Debrecen Commercial Society and also of a number of trading and commercial societies in the provinces. Besides all this he was a great advocate of the arts, founder of museums, a charitable person with social sensitivity, full of affection for Hungarian industry, the Hungarian nation, humanity and public welfare. He was also full of eagerness to act, possessed visions, plans for the future, achieved unique results, lived through tragedies leading to joy and fought for all those people and objectives that only the best, the true ones can do something for. He lived in the spirit of all this and his memory should live on in the very same way.
