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ISTVÁN ORMOS barátom)" 3 4, where Abdallah seems to have been Goldziher's nickname. There are also reports on the Goldzihers' theatre visits. 3 5 The Goldzihers had a small property in the country, in the Arad county, where Mrs. Goldziher came from, and food parcels used to arrive from there at short intervals. On such occasions they regularly invited friends for dinner; Mrs. Goldziher was an excellent housewife and kept a good table. 3 6 It may also be mentioned that Goldziher and some of his friends were in the habit of meeting in the café of Hotel Bristol, where they had a table reserved for them (Hung, törzsasztal / Genn. Stammtisch) 3 1 They were known as the "Bristol Társaság [Bristol Circle] ". The Circle was founded by belletrists and scholars, among them Goldziher, in the autumn of 1896 and was still very active in 1908, "and also many years later". Its members met daily. Pál Gyulai, one of the foremost figures of the literary establishment of the period, the editor of Budapesti Szemle, also attended the meetings; most of the members of the Circle, including Goldziher, regularly contributed to this prestigious semi-scholarly journal, which appeared under the aegis of the Academy. 3 8 One of the members remembered Goldziher as a hospitable, free and easy person. 3 9 A younger colleague described his manners as enthralling. 4 0 A friend summarized Goldziher's merits in the following humorous address: "Ornament of our fatherland, pillar of scholarship, anointed of humour, joy Postcard dated Budapest, 24 February. The year is missing. Goldziher Correspondence in the Oriental Collection, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 3 5 Zimándi István, Péterfy Jenő és baráti köre [Jenő Péterfy and His Circle of Friends] (Irodalomtörténeti füzetek 30), Budapest i960, 60. 3 6 Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő és baráti köre..., 62, 85. 3 7 "Machen Sie doch unseren Islam nicht gar zu schlecht. " Der Briefwechsel der Islamwissenschaftler Ignaz Goldziher und Martin Hartmann 1894-1914. Ed. Ludmila Hanisch (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur - Mainz. Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band 45), Wiesbaden 2000, 228; Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő élete és kora..., 376-379, 381, 387; Id., Péterfy Jenő és baráti köre..., 55-57; Révai nagy lexikona [Révai's Comprehensive Encyclopaedia], Budapest 1911-1935, vol. III. 745 (s.v. 'Bristol-Társaság'). 3 8 Pál Gyulai (1826-1909), critic, literary historian, poet, novelist. At his eightieth birthday it was Goldziher who delivered the official address of congratulation in the Academy. Goldziher's "sincere address (aufrichtige Ansprache)" was highly praised by those present. At Gyulai's death Goldziher called "the good old man" his "old benefactor ", with whom he had been on intimate terms since 1874 and who had given so many proofs of his appreciation and respect. Goldziher, Tagebuch..., 249, 263. 3 9 Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő élete és kora..., 380. 4 0 Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő élete és kora..., 380. 168
