Szabolcs-Szatmár-Beregi levéltári évkönyv 14. (Nyíregyháza, 2000)

Rezümék (angol, német)

the reader a story — a story of his life. The daily life of a private, then a corporal, and finally of a lieutenant is decribed, against the background of the great historical events. We receive a picture of the daily life of a soldier, the relationship between privates and officers, and the desires and ambitions of a young provincial nobleman of 19th-century Hungary. In his views, ideas and way of life Krasznay is — for lack of any better term — a typical representative of the class of the landed gentry. He barely began his studies of law when the War of Independence came. He never finished the law school. He was proud of the past of his ancestors, but he measured his own deeds and performance by that of his peers. He was aware of the world of peasants round him, but he was too proud to allow anyone to come too close to him from the lower classes. His idols were his brother, Gabor and the major — later colonel — of the 48th Batallion of Szabolcs, Samuel Rakovszky. Peter Krasznay lived long enough to see the bourgeois development of provincial Hungary. He witnessed the daily work of the local governments, the fight against the absolutistic regime, the changes in the life of the rural community. Behind all the memories he collected during his long life, there is the golden memory of his days in the army of the War of Independence of 1848^19. S

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NDOR GALAMBOS The Contemporary Press of a German Town on the Hungarian War of Independence In the middle of the last century two newspapers were published in the north-German town of Iserlohn in Nord Rhein-Westphalen. They were the Iserlohner Wochenblatt and the Öffentlicher Anzeiger. The staff of the local archives identified approximately one hundred articles related to the Hungarian War of Independence. The writings range from brief reports, consisting of a mere few words, to long analyses, letters, biographies and even poems. The articles show that the Germans were sympathetic of Hungary, „on the edge of the Western civilization", fighting for her freedom against despotic regimes, and serving as a barrier against the spreading „Slavonic sea". Great significance was attirbuted to what was going on in the Carpathian Basin. Because of the great geographical distance and the primitive telecommunications system of the day, reports often came with delays of 5-6 days, and corrections were frequently necessary afterwards. WILFIRED FORSTMANN Adolf Glassbrenner (1810-1876) Adolf Glassbrenner was a satyrical publicist of Berlin. He published his first writings when he was only 17 years old. The writings appeared in the periodical Don Quijote in Berlin in 1832. Two years later the paper was banned by the censors. Glassbrenner then depicted the daily life of the common people of Berlin in a series entitled „Berlin, wie es ist und — trinkt". In addition to this series, he published poems, theatrical criticism and social criticism. In the eve of 1848, seeing the increasing poverty and deprivation, he launched regular attacks on the establishment. In his New Years' Wishes, published in the Komischer Kalender, he summed all the ideas he had been fighting for. During the revolution he began to publish a