Hungarian Studies Review Vol. 4., 1977
No. 2. Fall - Part III - Other Reviews: - S. B. VARDY: Saint Stephen in Hungarian History
The publisher, Verlag Herold, should also be complimented for the beautiful printing, executed with equal precision in both the German and the Hungarian versions of this book. NOTES 1. Balint Homan, Szent 1st van [St. Stephen], Budapest, 1938; and idem, "Szent Istvan kiraly" [King St. Stephen], in Emlekkonyv Szent 1st van kiraly hdldldnak kilencszazadik evfordulojdn [Memorial Volume on the Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of King St. Stephen's Death], 3 vols., Budapest, 1938. Vol. II, pp. 3-31. 2. Gyula Szekfu, "Szent Istvan a magyar tortenet szazadaiban" [St. Stephen in the Centuries of Hungarian History], in ibid., vol. Ill, pp. 3-80. For a shorter version of this study see Szekfu's "Szentistvani allam" [The State of St. Stephen], in his/I//aw es nenizet [State and Nation]. Budapest, 1942, pp.9 38. 3. As an example of the Marxist view on St. Stephen, see the representative synthesis under the editorship of Erik Molnar, Magyarurszag turtenete [History of Hungary], 2 vols, 2nd ed., Budapest, 1967. The author of the relevant section of this work, Gyorgy Szekely, characterized St. Stephen as "the revolutionary regenerator of Hungarian society."(Vol. I. p. 55). 4. For the discussion of the interwar exponents of this pan-Turanian and anti-St. Stephen orientation, see Laszlo Gaal, "Mukedvelok a magyar ostortenetirasban" [Amateurs in Hungarian Proto-Historiography], Magyar Szemle [Hungarian Review], vol. Xll (May-August 1931), pp. 262-272; Gyula Szekfu, Huron] nemzedek es ami utdna kuvetkezik [The Three Generations and What Follows], Budapest, 1935, pp. 485 492; and Mihaly Ferdinandy, "A la/ado Koppany mitosza" [The Myth of the Rebel Koppany], Magyar Szemle, vol. XXX11 (January April, 1938), pp. 244 253. The most notable current advocate of this anti-St. Stephen orientation is Ferenc Jos Badiny, the author of a number of works on the alleged Sumerian descent of the Magyars. As an example, in one of his recent articles he claims that "[St.] Stephen I . . . was despised by the Magyar people, for he had exterminated more Magyars than the two world wars combined. Cf. Os i Gyoker [Ancient Roots] (Buenos Aires), vol. V, no. 2 (March-April, 1977), p. 58. 5. Gyorgy Bonis, Istvan kiraly [King Stephen], Budapest, 1956. 6. Gyorgy Gyorffy, Istvan kiraly emlekezete [Remembering King Stephen], Budapest, 1973. 7. Ferenc Somogyi, Szent Istvan a magyar nemzeti elet kdzpont/aban [St. Stephen in the Center of Hungarian National Life], Cleveland, 1970. 8. Tamas Bogyay, "Ujabb Szent Istvan-kutatasok" [Recent Research on St. Stephen], Katolikus Szemle [Catholic Review] (Rome), vol. XXII1 (1971), pp. 3 20. In addition to his biography of St. Stephen, Bogyay's books include: Muvesz a korai kdzepkurban [The Artist in the Early Middle Ages], 1932; Lechfeld, 1961; Bay em unci die Kunst Ungarns, 1964; Grundziigeder Geschichte Ungarns, 1968, 3rd ed., 1977; and Ungarns Geschichtsschreiber, 1976. 9. Gyula Robert Cey-Bert, Szent Istvan szemelyisege es jelleme: Szemelviseges jellemtanulmdny Szent Istvanrol [The Personality and Character of St. Stephen: A Study of St. Stephen's Personality and Character], Geneva. (In press). 204