A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historica 12. (Szeged, 2009)

BOGOLY József: Ágoston Ars memoriae 1860-1865. Roediger Lajos emlékirata. Makói évek

The character of Franz Smolka, an Austrian-Polish politician, is recalled mentioning his pro-Hungarian speech in the Reichsrath. How did a schoolboy from Makó see the world? Analyzing the Memoirs we could answer this question. A miniscule town history striving for reality and referencing the speciality of the age could be opened up by analysing Roediger's Memoirs. The Memoirs is a historical ego-document which tries to create a narrative identity with the help of ars memoriea. Autobiography and memoirs could be seen as the narrative transformation of history. Due to its value as a remarkable source and document, also to its high-quality linguistic formation the Memoirs are important for literary and cultural historians, as well as for researchers of mentality history.