Celebrated Hungarian Americans

Bela Bartok  -  Ignace Hainer  -  Eugene Hainer
Bayard T. Hainer  -   Lajos Kossuth  -  Paul Newman George Soros  -  Thomas Szasz  -  Cornel Wilde
Eugene Ormandy   -  Eugene Blaise~Hainer
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Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd ~

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Conductor/Violinist Eugene Ormandy
Born Jeno Blau in Budapest in 1899 - Died in Philadelphia in 1985
Studied at National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music  -  The Franz List Academy
Conductor: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra  ~  Philadelphia Orchestra
Guest Conductor: London Symphony Orchestra
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Bela Bartok: Composer & Pianist
Born: March 25, 1881, Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary   -  Died: September 26, 1945, New York

Education: The Budapest Academy
The folk music of Hungary was central to the music of Bela Bartok.
He was the first composer to make use of this music.
He was also the first to exploit its idiosyncrasies.
More important, he integrated it fully into his own style.
Philosophically Bela Bartok was a humanist-existentialist.

Bela Bartok Memorial House, Budapest

Biographical Sketch of Bela Bartok              Hear Bartok's music at Amazon   

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Prof. Ignace Hainer, Journalist - Statesman
Born in Hungary - Nov. 15, 1818  ~  Died in Davis City, Iowa - 1900
Cemetery Tombstone
Son of Ignace Hainer Sr. and Catharina Madarasz
Married Etelka Barthos (daughter of Lajos Barthos and Elizabeth Szilagyi)
Children: Ada (Blaise), Hermoine, Laura (Radnich), Norma, Vesta (Chase), Viktor, Eugene, Bayard, Julius
Lawyer - Journalist - Linguist - Professor - Abolitionist
Secretary to Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Batthyany
Led Hungarian Revolt Against Austro-Hungarian Empire - 1848
Drafted Hungarian
March Laws - Declaration of Independence - 1848
Imprisoned by Austrians for five months ~ Exiled to USA in 1854
Professor of Modern Languages, University of Missouri - 1856-1861
Decatur County,Iowa Farmer        Member: Iowa Grand Jury         Delegate: National Convention

Ignace Hainer Biography     Ignace Hainer Obituary     Ladislaus-Szechenyi-Hainer
Congressman Eugene Jerome Hainer
Born in Funkerchin, Hungary Aug. 16 1851  - Died in Omaha,Nebraska, March 17,1929
Son of Ignace Hainer and Etelka Barthos Hainer
Served in the 53rd & 53th Congresses ~ 1893-1897 ~  Republican ~ Nebraska

Congressional Biograp
hy   ~   Personal Biography
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Judge Bayard Taylor Hainer
Born in Columbia, Missouri 1860 - Died in Oklahoma City in 1933
Son of Professor Ignace Hainer and Etelka Barthos Hainer (natives of Hungary)

Associate Justice - Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court
General Counsel - U.S. Department of Agriculture - Harding Administration
Chief Council - Federal Trade Commission - 1925 - 1933
Biographical Sketch         Chronicles of Oklahoma Tribute to Judge Hainer
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Lajos "Louis" Kossuth
Hungarian lawyer, journalist, revolutionary, governor of Independent Hungary
biography
Banker-Oil Baron Eugene Blaise ~ Hainer biography
Athlete Joe Namath biography   -   Stock Investor George Soros biography
Psychiatrist/Social Critic/Author Thomas S. Szasz
biography
Actor Paul Newman
biography   ~   Actor Cornel Wilde  biography
Lt. Viktor Madarasz - Hungarian Painter
1830 (Csetnek - 1917 (Budapest)
Served in the 1848-49 Hungarian war of independence fought against the Hapburgs.
Studied painting at the Vienna Academy from 1853 to 1855.
Was enrolled in Waldmuiller's private school. Studied with Cogniet in Paris.
He is remembered as one of the greatest Hungaian romantic-historic painters.
self-portrait - biography - gallery
Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd
Tom Miguel Blaise de Separdi*

Philosopher - Architect - Writer - Social Critic
Author:
" The Conscience of an Existentialist"
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* Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd is a great great grandson of Ignace Hainer
He is a grandson of Eugene Frank Blaise ~ Hainer