É. Apor , I. Ormos (ed.): Goldziher Memorial Conference, June 21–22, 2000, Budapest.

ORMOS, István: The Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher and Max Herz

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF IGNAZ GOLDZIHER AND MAX H

ERZ of his friends and pearl of the Universe!"

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1 Another friend wrote: "No doubt Goldziher is adorned by a whole wreath of love-inspiring and venerable qualities."

42 His students loved, even idolized him because of his devotion to them.

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1 In a remarkable place we read of the importance Goldziher attached to humour in life generally, without which, he believed, it was not worth a "dirham".

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4 Goldziher's sense of humour is shown in the greeting on a postcard which he sent from Cuxhaven (Hotel Auge Gottes) in Germany to his friend Dávid Angyal, a fellow-member of the Bristol Circle, who was staying at Marienbad in Bohemia, at the end of July 1905. The signature is : "

Banzáj alékum! Gzr

." The Japanese greeting and battle cry became popular in the course of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. There was a strong involvement of Hungarian sentiments on the Japanese side because the memory of the Russian intervention in Hungary in 1849, which had led to the crushing of the revolution and war of independence, was still very much alive. In the text itself he mentions Dr. Yahuda, "you know, this Asian, wholly Germanized scholar, whom 1 have taken with me to the Bristol once or twice (tudja, ez az ázsiai, teljesen elnémetesedett tudós, kit l-2szer a Bristolba hoztam)".

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2 Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő élete és kora..., 380. Löw reports of a tabula gratulatoria which formed part of the Festschrift presented to Goldziher "twelve years ago" (i.e. around 1910 because Goldziher died on 13 November 1921 and Löw delivered the sermon on Goldziher's death on 10 December). The tabula gratulatoria ended with the following words: "litteris decus et ornamentum, nobis moderator, patriae familiaeque exoptatissimae gloria"

. Immánuel Löw, 'Goldziher Ignác', in: Id., Száz beszéd 1900-1922 [One Hundred Sermons 1900-1922], Szeged 1923, 306. No such tabula gratulatoria can be found in the Goldziher-Festschrift edited by Carl Bezold in Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 26 (1912). There was also a Hungarian Festschrift presented to Goldziher by his pupils (Keleti tanulmányok. Goldziher Ignácz születésének hatvanadik évfordulójára írták tanítványai [Oriental Studies. Written for the Sixtieth Birthday of Ignaz Goldziher by His Pupils], Budapest 1910.) but there is no tabula gratulatoria in it either and Löw is quite explicit about the other Festschrift in his sermon. Maybe the tabula gratulatoria was on an extra sheet. 4

2 Zimándi, Péterfy Jenő élete és kora..., 380. 4

3 Patai, Ignaz Goldziher and His Oriental Diaty..., 77-78. 4

4 Machen Sie doch..., 63. 4

5 Postcard with postmark of arrival of 30 July 1905. Ms 4177/31. Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Collection of Manuscripts and Old Prints. This Japanese word is still used in modern Hungarian slang for "noisy and joyful party or company". However, it is probable that Goldziher used it here in its original meaning. Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), a Sephardic Jew born in a Baghdadi family in Jerusalem, was professor in Berlin, Madrid and New York. 169