The Hungarian poet Mihály Babits was brought up on the ideas of Ernest Renan (1823–1892). The French thinker was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1859, and his ideas on the nation became the common ...

Kazinczy Ferenc, the symbolic founding father of the modern hungarian literature, is one of the most contested figure of the Hungarian national consciousness. A bewildering variety of highly controversial opinions characterizes ...