Győző Istóczy

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Győző Istóczy

Győző Istóczy (born November 7, 1842 in Táplánszentkereszt in Eisenburg County ; † January 9, 1915 in Budapest ), also Géza or Victor (von) Istóczy, was an anti-Semitic Hungarian parliamentarian and writer.

Life

Istóczy's father was the Second Prosecutor of Vas County . His small aristocratic family originally owned around 100 yoke lands in the county. After attending school in Szombathely in 1860 studied Istóczy in Vienna and 1861 in Pest law . He worked as a lawyer, became vice-notary in 1867, judge in 1868 and, from 1872, chair judge in the Vasvár district . In the constituency of Rum he was elected to the Hungarian parliament in 1872 as a liberal supporter of Ferenc Deáks . In 1875, however, under the impression of the economic successes of the Jews in Hungary and apparently also of personal conflicts, he began to found his own anti-Semitic movement. This movement first culminated in the Tiszaeszlár affair in 1882/83 , which resulted in riots and Istóczy was accused of "inciting against the denominations", but was acquitted as "not guilty" with ten to two votes. Istóczy was also one of the main speakers at the first of the two international anti-Jewish congresses , which took place in Dresden in 1882. Here he appealed in several speeches to the governments of the Christian countries to defend themselves against the Jewish danger. As a racist supporter of the expulsion of the Jews to Palestine, he played a paradoxically stimulating role in the history of Zionism . In 1885 the anti-Semite party began to disintegrate after Istóczy could no longer be elected chairman for personal reasons and even resigned from the party. Istóczy was one of eleven anti-Semite MPs in the 1887 elections, and in 1892 he was re-elected as a single candidate for parliament. In 1896 he retired from public life.

Fonts (selection)

  • Draft statutes of the Central Association of the Non-Jewish Federation of Hungary , Berlin: Hentze 1880
  • The restoration of the Jewish state in Palestine. From the speeches of Viktor Istóczy, given in the Hungarian House of Representatives during the Reichstag from 1872-1896 , Budapest 1905

literature

  • Francois Fejtö: Hongrois et Juifs. Histoire millénaire d'un couple singular . Paris 1997.
  • Andrew Handler: An Early Blueprint for Zionism: Gyozo Istoczy's Political Anti-semitism . Boulder, Colorado 1989.
  • Albert S. Lindemann : Esau's Tears: Modern anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews , Cambridge University Press 1997
  • Istóczy, Géza from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 46.
  • Rolf Fischer: Development stages of anti-Semitism in Hungary 1867-1939. The destruction of the Magyar-Jewish symbiosis. , Oldenbourg, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-486-54731-3
  • Franz Sz. Horváth: Istóczy, Győző , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, pp. 401f.

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personal data
SURNAME Istóczy, Győző
ALTERNATIVE NAMES from Istóczy, Géza; from Istóczy, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian MP and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Táplánszentkereszt , Eisenburg County
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1915
Place of death Budapest