Halmágyi Pál: A Pulitzer-kultusz 100 éve Makón 1911–2011. A Makói Múzeum Füzetei 112. (Makó, 2011)

Mellékletek - Pál Halmágyi: The Pulitzer Cult in Makó (1911-2011)

reopened his prosperous business in what was soon to become the capital city of Hungary. However, real disaster came to them when the father suddenly got ill with tuberculosis and business had to be neglected. He died in 1858 leaving family and business in disarray. Young Joseph did not feel like staying home in these circumstances. Longing for adventure, he had a desire to follow in the footsteps of one of his uncles, Vilmos Berger, who was a hussar in the Austrian light cavalry. It was in 1864, that at age seventeen, he left for America to pursue some sort of a military career... Text by András Csillag The Pulitzer Cult in Makó (1911-2011) It is not widely known even in Hungary, that the world famous media mogul, editor, multimillionaire, József Pulitzer, founder of the prestigious prize, was born in Makó, Hungary. This fact was proved by András Csillag in his issue published in the Makói Múzeum Füzetei in 1985. It is mostly thanks to him, as well as to Ferenc Tóth, head of museum, and to Mrs. Imre Antal that the Pulitzer cult has developed in Makó. Present study reviews this development, stressing the influence of foreign and domestic politics, as well as economic surroundings on the judgement of Pulitzer's activity. Today a memorial plaque can be seen on the place where Pulitzer's native house stood, a bust was erected on the main square of the town, a secondary school dormitory was named after him and the town founded a memorial prize for talented young journalists. Text by Pál Halmágyi Translated by Ildikó Pusztai- Varga 43