Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II


“Pharmacy is Not a Trade but a Vocation”

Légrády owed this conviction of hers to heredity, the patterns to which she had been exposed in the family home, and the entire ethos of her upbringing. The Légrády family was originally entered in the registrar’s records by the name of Pollák. The name change came about when two Pollák brothers, Károly (1834–1903) and Tivadar (1837–1895) respectively married Mária and Berta, the two daughters of a lawyer of noble extraction named Imre Légrády of Malomszeg. Károly, having graduated from the Lutheran High School in Deák square, attended the Royal Hungarian Ludovica Defense Military Academy in 1848, then enrolled in courses of philosophy in Pest and technical studies in Vienna. In 1858, he partnered up with his brother Tivadar, a lithographer, to establish a lithographic press in Budapest’s Váci Street, selling/publishing professional journals of economy as well as books in addition to daily press. In 1879, they were hired to print Pesti Hírlap (originally named Pesti Hirlap), the cheap, always up-to-date daily edited by Károly, a philosopher-cum-merchant and member of the Hungarian Parliament. The paper became a hallmark of the Pollák brothers, with Tivadar—an artistically inclined, meticulous graphic designer—overseeing printing operations while spending plenty of time with his family. He fulfilled his duties as member of the Lipótváros School Board in the capacity of bonus pater familias, and managed the district casino on the side. The two brothers acquired the 5th-district plot on the corner of Váci Boulevard, Klotild Road, and Sólyom Street (today the corner of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky, Béla Stollár, and János Bihari), where they proceeded to build the palace of Pesti Hírlap on the plans of two distinguished architects at the turn of the century, Flóris Korb (1860–1930) and Kálmán Giergl (1863–1954). The hardships encountered during the construction project undermined the health of Tivadar, Erzsébet’s father, who died in 1895. His share in the joint company was inherited by his wife Berta and their six children, among them Erzsébet, who had been born on November 15, 1874.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/cristian-kerchy-pioneer-hungarian-women-in-science-and-education-ii//

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