Eva Haraszti-Taylor

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Eva Haraszti-Taylor (born September 28, 1923 in Miskolc ; died October 29, 2005 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian-British historian.

Life

Éva Haraszti grew up in a middle-class family and attended the Protestant girls' high school in Miskolc. In 1943 she began studying philology (Latin, Greek, history) at the University of Budapest . After the war ended, she went to London in 1947 and did research on the British politician Palmerston and his position on the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 . In London she had a room with the family of the architect Ernő Goldfinger in his house at 2 Willow Road . In 1949 she returned to what was now communist Hungary and received a position as a historian at the Institute for History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). In this position she was able to hold on, even if she did not join the Communist Party and was hostile as a bourgeois and scientist with contacts to the capitalist world. In 1951 she married the communist Vilmos Hudecz, who was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. They had two children. Hudecz died in 1969 at the age of 44.

In 1960 she met the British historian Alan John Percivale Taylor (1906–1990) for the first time at a historians' conference in Budapest . They married in Budapest in 1976, and in 1978 moved to his house in Kentish Town , London, where she played the role of the wife and carer of a historian who was prominent among the British public. Taylor fell ill with Parkinson's disease and had to be cared for in a nursing home from 1987.

Haraszti-Taylor looked after Taylor's written estate and arranged for his works to be translated into Hungarian. She kept a diary and published several autobiographical books from it. She resumed her academic work and published studies and editions of files on British-Hungarian history. She lived in Kentish Town and Budapest.

Fonts (selection)

  • A chartista mozgalom . Budapest: Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1967
  • Szerződésszegők: Az angol-német flottaegyezmény, 1935. június . Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1972
    • Treaty-breakers or "Realpolitiker"? : the Anglo-German naval agreement of June 1935 . Translation by Sándor Simon. Advice to Eric Waldman . Boppard: Boldt, 1974
  • The invaders: Hitler occupies the Rhineland . Translation from Hungarian by Zsófia László and Brian McLean. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1983
  • Michael Károlyi. A friend , in: Chris Wrigley (Ed.): Warfare, diplomacy and politics: essays in honor of AJP Taylor . London: Hamilton, 1986, pp. 231-246
  • A life with Alan: the diary of AJP Taylor's wife, Eva from 1978 to 1985 . London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987
  • Kossuth as an English journalist . Translated from the Hungarian by Brian McLean. Columbia University Press, 1990
  • (Ed.): AJP Taylor. Letters to Eva: 1969-1983 . London: Century, 1991
  • Horthy Miklós dokumentumok tükrében . Budapest: Balassi, 1993
  • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: a collection of documents from the British Foreign Office . Nottingham: Astra Press, 1995
  • Britain and the Hungarian Social Democrats, 1945-1956: a collection of documents from the British Foreign Office . Nottingham: Astra Press, 1996
  • Choices and decisions: a life . London: EHT, 1997
  • Britain and Hungary in the post-war years, 1945-51: a parallel history in narrative and documents . Nottingham: Astra Press, 2000
  • Scribble, scribble, scribble -: historical essays, documents, reviews and personal reflections on Britain and Hungary . Nottingham: Astra Press, 2001
  • Hush, I became eighty: my diary for 2003 . Nottingham: Astra, 2004.

literature

  • Attila Pók : The fabric of modern Europe: studies in social and diplomatic history; essays in honor of Éva Haraszti Taylor on the occasion of her 75th birthday . Nottingham: É. Haraszti Taylor in association with Astra Press, 1999
  • Chris Wrigley: AJP Taylor - Radical Historian of Europe . London: IB Tauris, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Wrigley: AJP Taylor - Radical Historian of Europe . London: IB Tauris, 2006, p. 419. For the chemist Ferenc Hudecz (* 1952) see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Hudecz Ferenc ; István Hudecz (* 1955) is an architect.
personal data
SURNAME Haraszti-Taylor, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-British historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2005
Place of death Budapest