Haiman György (szerk.): Kner Imre emléke 1890-1990 (Békéscsaba–Gyomaendrőd, 1990)

Chronological Table

July 10, 1940-gave a lecture in the radio on book art, onthe500th anniversary of printing.

1940 - in the autumn the volume “Apology” by Nicholas Kis was already under production at Gyoma, edited by Gábor Tolnai. Imre Kner was taken to forced labour service, guarding the bridge at the Gyoma railway where, in his free time he read the page-proofs of the Apology.

June28-July7,1942 - spent his vacation at Kolozsvár. F rom Lajos Kelemen he learnt that the only unknown type specimen from Amsterdam of Nicholas Kis Tótfalusi was in the Budapest National Archives, in the collection of the Hatfaludy family. On his initiative Pál Szentkúty found it and published this unique specimen, but Imre Kner was not mentioned in the publication.

1942 - on the 60th anniversary of the printing house a book of type specimen and inventory was made with Imre Kner’s important introductory notes under the title “A Kner-nyomda épületeinek, gépeinek és betűinek története” (The history of buildings, machines and types of the Kner Printing House).

January 1943 - his brother Endre was reported missing at the Voronezh break-through.

1943 - gradually became more and more lonely but did not give up his principles. On April 2 6 this is what he wrote to Miklós Móricz: “the self-contained intellectual stratum is not identical with national intelligentsia and if, in his own interest, it once became an organized power, this would mean the death of the nation. ” On August 19 he wrote the following to János Mata: “I think, that the direction of progress and development can be nothing else but the resultant of the manifold forces and intentions present in society. I did what I wanted the way I could or considered right. It, however, would never occur to me to order anyone to do the same. ”

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