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Dr. A.L. Gabriel, Press [Hungarian], 1947-1952

 File — Box: CALG 1
Identifier: CALG 1/02

Scope and Contents

Short articles in various Hungarian-language papers from America, Canada, or Hungary having to do with:

1. ALG giving speeches and participating in festivals and ceremonies organized by the Catholic Hungarian community in Toronto, giving a course of lectures on Hungarian history and folk-art in Toronto, University of Ottawa, and Chicago; his lectures and interviews about the first Hungarian in Newfoundland, Canada; his treatise in Analecta Praemonstratensia; his speech in front of three thousand Hungarians in Delhi, Southern Ontario; his inaugural prayer at the Hungarian Charity Society's Social Evening; delivering keynote speeches at the Danube Institute's first two-day Congress in Cleveland, Ohio; his speech at the Hungarian cultural event at Windsor about Hungarian art motifs and their philosophical background.

2. News about ALG conducting lecture series at the University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute on the history of the University of Paris and at the University of Montreal on the intellectual life in medieval Paris; various lectures at Indiana University, Bloomington, in Cincinnati at the Hotel Alms, and in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library where he met Howard Goodhart, Fritz Kreisler, and Cardinal Spellman among others; graduation speeches at Nazareth College in Louisville and Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh.

3. Articles about ALG's appointment as director of the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute in 1952 by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. (the only Medieval Institute in the country in those days) and his library and manuscript research project at Harvard.

4. Invitations from Etienne Gilson, the French Congressman and historian of philosophy; book exhibition at Notre Dame organized by ALG; his discourse on the Hungarian dean at the University of Paris in the 15th century; ALG's publicity in Rome reflected in several articles in the Osservatore Romano.

5. ALG's new book "English Scholars in Paris"; his Hungarian nuptial ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, wedding Countess Andrássy Erzsébet and Olgyay Aladár, professor at Notre Dame; his one-year research award from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, article run by the New York Times (including a photo of ALG); his acquisition of old Hungarian material, including some rare books dated before the battle of Mohács of 1526.

6. ALG's article appearing in Ecclesia (official magazine of the Vatican); article by ALG on the spirituality of the most important Hungarian Saint, St. Marguerite of Hungary, and about King St. László from 1077; his trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to give invited talks at the university and in front of the local Hungarian Community.

Dates

  • Creation: 1947-1952

Language of Materials

In English, Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Latin.

Genre / Form

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

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