Éva Földes

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Éva Földes (around 1935)
Grave on the Farkasréti temető

Éva Földes (born July 6, 1914 in Szombathely , Austria-Hungary ; died July 9, 1981 in Balatonalmádi ) was a Hungarian sports historian.

Life

Éva Földes' father Sámuel Földes was a businessman and at the same time president of the football club Szombathelyi Athletikai Klub . The family moved to Budapest in 1925, where Éva attended school and then studied Italian, art history and education at the Péter Pázmány University . Földes started working as a teacher of French, Italian and Latin. She also wrote for the newspaper Dolgozó Asszonyok Lapja (workers newspaper). After the Olympic Games in 1936 , she had the opportunity to interview the Hungarian Olympic champions Ilona Elek-Schacherer and Ibolya Csák for the newspaper. To prepare a book about Mussolini , she traveled to Italy, where she interviewed his wife, Rachele Guidi . The book was published in 1937.

In 1944, as a Jew, she was banned from working because of the tightening of Hungarian anti-Semitic laws and had to do forced labor. At the end of 1944 she was deported from Hungary by the Eichmann Command with the assistance of the Hungarian gendarmerie . She was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there was sent to the Venusberg subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp for forced labor . At the beginning of May 1945 she was transferred on a death march to the Mauthausen concentration camp and liberated there by the US Army .

After the end of the war she worked as a journalist again and accompanied the Hungarian team as a translator and press secretary to the Olympic Games in London . Földes took part in the art competition of the 1948 Summer Olympics, the decisions in the art competition were traditionally announced before the games, the honors took place during the games. Földes won the bronze medal in the Epic Works category for her work Der Jungbrunnen , the gold medal went to Gianni Stuparich . Your text deals with Lucas Cranach's painting The Fountain of Youth.

Földes received the Hungarian Order of Merit in bronze in 1948 and the Order of Merit for Sports in silver in 1952 (Magyar Népköztársasági Sportérdemérem ezüst fokozat). She received her doctorate with a dissertation on the history of physical education in Hungary. In 1961 she was appointed professor of sports education and sports history at the Budapest Sports University.

Földes was married to the Romanist and historian Lajos Elekes (1914–1982). She died in 1981 in a boat accident on Lake Balaton .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mussolini az ujságoió… 1, Biop - mussolini . Otthon-nyowa, Budapest 1937
  • Mussolini az ujsáqvió… 2, Benito Mussolini giornalista Italie, Presse 1910–1923 . Otthon-nyowa, Budapest 1937
  • with Emma Szabó: Kossuth Zsuzsánna; a magyar szabadság ismeretlen hősnőjének élete és levelei . Szerzö kiadása, Budapest 1944
  • Fejezetek a magyar testnevelés történetéből. I. rész. 1849-ig . Dissertation 1955
  • A tanácsköztársaság sportja . Sport lapés Koenyvkiadó, Budapest 1959
  • A sport történetéből . Móra, Budapest 1959
  • Népoktatási, népnevelési törekvések a korai antifeudális népi-forradalmi mozgalmakban . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1964
  • with István Mészáros (Ed.): Comenius and Hungary: Essays . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1973

literature

  • Margit Balogh, Mária Palasik: Nők a magyar tudományban. Szerk . Napvilág, Budapest 2010 ISBN 978-963-9697-54-6
  • Annamária Hollerné Mecséri: Dr. Földes Éva . Gencsapáti – Szülőföld, Szombathely 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Földes, Éva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Szombathely
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1981
Place of death Balatonalmádi