Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 35/1-2. (Győr, 1997)

Ernő Barsi wurde 75 Jahre alt - Nemcsik Pál: Our spiritual cradle was „Athens by the Bodrog riverside”

this is proved by the fact that one of his sons, Miklós, served as a major in the National Defence Army. His second son, Dénes, was captain in the national army as well as Deputy gevomment commissioner of the town and county Győr. The third son, Viktor, aged 1 7, joined the cavalry and was serving as a corporal at the time of the capitulation after the defeat of the War of Independence in 1 849. Pál Gyapay's diary-book most probably was confiscated by the imperial and royal authorities when, after the taking of Győr, the author was captured in the end of June 1849. Documents of the process against Pál Gyapay are unknown, but the diary, together with other appendices of the case, survived. Pál Gyapay started to compile his diary on the second of October 1848, at the time when the Croatians marshed through County Győr, and finished his notes on the 24th June 1 849. The diary provides us a vivid picutre of the experiences of these inspiring or depressing months through the eyes of a patriotic medium landowner in County Győr who was anxious about the fate of his homeland. Series of Essays dedicated to Ernő Barsi In the essays published in this series, ten students, teacher-colleagues, schoolmates, and ethnographer friends pay tribute to Ernő Barsi on the occasion of his 75th birtday. The authors present him as a teacher , musician, Calvinist preacher, and ethnographer, who collects folk songs and researches folklore. Dr. József Nagy: The native village, Sály The author gives a presentation of the inspiring family background and the years when Ernő Barsi lived at Sály, a village at the foot of the Bükk mountains, which preserved its traditions of songs and music. He writes about the years spent as schoolboy at Sárospatak and the experiences Barsi had at the Musical Academy as Kodály's student. Then he mentions Barsi's withdrawal to Sály after the war and the decades he spent as a teacher at the Teachers' Training College in Győr from 1 959 onwards. Dr. Pál Nemesik: Our spiritual cradle was "Athens-by the Bodrog riverside" The one-time-schoolmate teacher commemorates the years he spent together with Ernő Barsi in the reformed college at Sárospatak, at the most receptive age for both of them. The author gives clear evidence of this outstanding spiritual workshop and of the artistic education which was characteristic of the college. He also pays tribute to the violin teacher, Ernő Szabó, who laid the foundations of Ernő Barsi's musical training, as well as to Kálmán Újszászy, professor of theology, who led a seminar on rural sociology, a course which provided Ernő Barsi with both moral and professional motives to his work in researching the spiritual treasures of Hungarian villages. ARRABONA 35/1-2.