Plague (city)
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Pest and Elisabeth Bridge as seen from Buda.
Pest (Hungarian pronunciation [ pɛʃt ]; formerly also written as Pesth ) was, along with Buda, one of the two cities that made Hungary's capital Budapest in 1873 . Before that, it was the seat of the administrative administration of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1723 .
Pest is located on the eastern, flat side on the banks of the Danube and occupies two thirds of the urban area of Budapest.
Population development
- 1715: around 2500 inhabitants, of which 55.6% Germans , 19.4% Magyars (Hungarians), 2.2% Slovaks , 22.8% others
- 1737: Population na, thereof 57.8% Germans, 22.5% Magyars, 5.6% Slovaks, 14.1% others
- 1829: 62,471 inhabitants, including around 59,000 Germans, 1200 Slovaks, 1200 Magyars, 650 Serbs, 259 Greeks and 100 Romanians
Selection of personalities from Pest
- Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Schmitt (1744–1805), Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
- Franz Xaver von Zach (1754–1832), Austro-German astronomer , geodesist , mathematician, science historian and officer
- József Hild (1789–1867), architect
- Ágoston Haraszthy (1812–1869), pioneer of viticulture in North America
- Charles Edouard Boutibonne (1816–1897), genre and portrait painter
- Georg Decker (1818–1894), watercolor painter and lithographer
- Gabriel Decker (1821–1855), portrait painter and lithographer
- Johann Böckh (1840–1909), geologist
- Imre Kiralfy (1845-1919), impresario and event manager
- József Kauser (1848–1919), architect
- József Hampel (1849–1913), archaeologist and museum curator
- Sigmund Lautenburg (1851–1918), theater actor, director and theater director
- Max Nordau (1849–1923), writer, politician and co-founder of political Zionism
- Károly Senyei (1854–1919), sculptor
- Manfréd Weiss (1857–1922), industrialist
- Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), writer, publicist and journalist, founder of political Zionism
- Mihály von Lenhossék (1863–1937), anatomist and university professor
- Ferenc Szárnovszky (1863–1903), sculptor and medalist
- Arthur Holitscher (1869–1941), travel writer, essayist, novelist, novelist and playwright
- Felix Salten (1869–1945), writer
- Károly Jordan (1871–1959), mathematician and statistician
- Antal Vágó (1891-1944), football player
Eponyms
In 1998 the asteroid (6817) Pest was named after the city.
Web links
Commons : Pest - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ For later figures see Buda. Sources: Gustáv Beksics : Magyarosodás és magyarositás . Különös tekintettel városainkra. Budapest, 1883; A Pallas Nagy lexicon
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 33386
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ' N , 19 ° 6' E