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General Scrapbook, 1965-1973

 File — Box: CALG 1
Identifier: CALG 1/09

Dates

  • Creation: 1965-1973

Language of Materials

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

General

Folder. Newspaper clippings from Hungarian papers having to do with: ALG's election to be president of the American Catholic Historical Association as of January 1st, 1973, followed by a short biography; his inaugural presentation taking place at the General Assembly of 1973 in San Francisco; ALG's four invited talks during the summer of 1972 at the universities of Paris, France, and Köln, Saarbrücken, and München, Germany, on the history of European universities; ALG's election as a corresponding fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1971; ALG's, among others', gift to Hungary's largest Library, the Széchényi Public Library in Budapest, acquisition department, of a couple of his medieval monographs related to Hungary; ALG's election as a vice-president of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation; ALG's receiving the insignia of Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, from Dr. Luigi Lauriolia, Italian Consul General, in 1970; Book review by István Eszterhas on ALG's new book "The Medieval Universities of Pécs and Pozsony" in Catholic Hungarians' Sunday, says that ALG's book is a classic, a very well documented and timely Hungarian monograph; ALG's addressing Hungarians in New York at the festive occasion of St. Stephen's millenium commemoration; his talk entitled "King St. Stephen: the law-maker and state-builder"; ALG's new book "Garlandia", a collection of medieval studies and memoirs with many Hungarian bearings; Seven of ALG's students honoring him and presenting ALG a volume entitled "Studium Generale", in Catholic Review, 1968; ALG's receiving his honorary degree from the Ambrosian Library, Milan, Italy, in 1968; it is the first honorary degree congregation that this world-famous institution has initiated; ALG's talk in New York on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Hungarian university education, together with Dr. Bakó Elemér, Library of Congress librarian, 1968, report by Békés Elemér; ALG receiving the Gold Medal of Árpád that was given to few eminent Hungarian thinkers living in emigration -- in front of a cheering and applauding crowd -- and meanwhile his unanimous election as first president of the new Árpád Academy, in Cleveland, Ohio, report in "Brotherhood", 1966; ALG's election as a full-member of the American Medieval Academy in 1966.

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Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

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