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  Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esterhazy was the perpetrator of the crime of which Alfred Dreyfus had been wrongly accused and convicted.
Born in Paris, Esterhazy belonged to an illustrious Hungarian family, a branch of which had established itself in France at the end of the 17th century, and the head of which had organized there a regiment of hussars.
There being a dearth of officers after the catastrophe of Sedan, Esterhazy was able to pass muster as a French lieutenant, then as a captain, and went through the campaigns of the Loire and of the Jura.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Walsin_Esterhazy   (806 words)

  
 Inlibris Bookstore - Celestial Harmonies : A Novel by Peter Esterhazy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Esterhazy's approach to the first half was to tell the family's story as ancedotes involving a score of family patriarchs.
Perhaps Esterhazy wanted to keep his novel from seeming like a history book but I'm afraid the actual effect of his approach will be to send readers scurrying to their bookshelves for an encyclopedia, as they try to look up a particular battle or Hungarian leader in order to put a given vignette in context.
Esterhazy touchingly shows us his father's struggle to adapt to life in a world where he'd gone from being the heir to one of Hungary's biggest fortunes, to having to live in a one-room dwelling with his family and work a series of menial jobs, the only ones the state allowed him to have.
www.inlibris.com /bookstore/main.pl?mode=books&m=1&asin=0060501049   (1304 words)

  
 Esterhazy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Esterházy (- German, in Hungarian sometimes spelled at Eszterházy, in Slovak: Esterházi) was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary since the Middle Ages, which was among the great territorial magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time it was part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire.
A minor member of the Esterhazy family was Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, notorious for his role in the Dreyfus affair.
His claim to the Esterhaus (Esterhazy) name was never recognized by the Esterhazy family, although he claims he had "incontrovertible proof of the legality of my claim and of birth right." [1]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esterh%C3%A1zy   (1915 words)

  
 ESTERHAZY OF GALANTHA - LoveToKnow Article on ESTERHAZY OF GALANTHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The first member of the family to emerge definitely into history was Ferencz Zerhazy (1563-1594), vice lord-lieutenant of the county of Pressburg, who took the name of Esterhazy when he was created Freikerr of Galantha, an estate acquired by the family in 1421.
This MIKLOS [Nicholas] ESTERHAZY of Galantha (1582-1645) was born at Galantha on the 8th of April 1582.
He rebuilt in the Renaissance style Schloss Esterhazy, the splendourof which won for it the name of the Hungarian Versailles.
10.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ES/ESTERHAZY_OF_GALANTHA.htm   (2390 words)

  
 BOOKS-Peter-Esterhazy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Budapest-born Esterhazy, 53, represented a "very perceptive voice of a generation born in the wake of destruction through terror and violence, whose resurrection took form in sadness and irony," the award citation said.
Esterhazy first studied mathematics and worked as a computer specialist before embarking on his literary career in the late 1970s.
Esterhazy is to receive the prize Oct. 10 at the end of the weeklong book fair, organizers said Wednesday.
www.cp.org /english/online/full/Entertainment/040618/e061812A.html   (191 words)

  
 Background on Esterhazy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Esterhazy is the kind of town where the living is easy with lots of fresh air, blue sky and beautiful sunsets.
He adopted the Esterhazy name when he was 35, saying it was "my rightful name, by in controversial proof of the legality of my claim and of birth right." This claim was never recognized by the Esterhazy family, one of the wealthiest and most prominent in Hungary.
Esterhazy has a variety of restaurants, shops and stores, comfortable hotel, motel and campground accommodations, and lots of outdoor summer recreation spots (swimming pool, tennis court, ball diamonds, 9 hole golf course).
www.hotcaesar.com /esterhazy/hazy.html   (871 words)

  
 About the Famous Esterhazy Jewels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
At the end of the nineteenth century the Esterhazy jewels were among the wonders of the age.
The famous Esterhazy jewels which remained in that princely house for three-quarters of a century, were among the wonders of the age.
The effect of their splendour was remarkable, and Prince Esterhazy, in particular, became distinguished throughout Europe for the enormous extravagance of his costume.
www.jjkent.com /articles/prince-esterhazy-jewels.htm   (402 words)

  
 Recreation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Esterhazy golf course is nestled in a picturesque valley between Esterhazy's newest residential area to the south and farmland to the north.
The main park is in conjunction with the Esterhazy Regional Park and includes a playground, lighted tennis court and ball diamonds, golf course, Boy Scout Hall, and the scenic Kaposvar Valley.
Esterhazy is central to a host of summer fishing and boating lakes excellent ice fishing spots, in the Qu'Appelle Valley, and the Duck Mountain and Good Spirit Provincial Parks.
www.town.esterhazy.sk.ca /recreation.html   (382 words)

  
 Peter Esterhazy Biography / Biography of Peter Esterhazy Biography Biography
One of the most prominent contemporary authors in Hungarian literature, Peter Esterhazy is acknowledged as the leader of the so-called middle generation of writers—those born in the decade between World War II and the October 1956 revolution —and is considered by many to be the finest living Hungarian prose writer.
Throughout his career Esterhazy has generated controversy concerning the quality and interpretation of his work, but there is no doubt of his role in almost single-handedly changing mainstream Hungarian fiction by rejecting the traditional conventions of narrative prose in favor of the linguistic and stylistic techniques of literary postmodernism.
The Esterhazy name has been among the most prominent in Hungary since the early seventeenth century, when the family became one of the leading clans of the aristocracy in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
www.bookrags.com /biography-peter-esterhazy   (201 words)

  
 Family first, history second
The result is a seductive sense that the author is the son of all Esterhazys past and the scion of all the contradictory currents in Hungarian and Esterhazy life over their centuries, whether brave, loyal, treacherous, unhinged or disengaged.
We meet a single, historical Esterhazy father, at last; a son (the author/narrator); and a kind of unholy Esterhazy ghost, the author/narrator's grandfather.
Then, with a jolt, history itself reclaims the reader, though evidently not the author, when the speaker in Esterhazy's novel calmly begins to refer to his communist antagonist as "the Jew Sterk," a form of address soon to be baptized in the blood of millions.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/RVGVQ5DBBA1.DTL&type=printable   (887 words)

  
 Haydn at the Esterhazy Court, 1761-1766
Paul Anton Esterhazy had inherited the castle in Eisenstadt (built in 1683) in 1721 and became a Prince of the Empire in 1724.
The contract between the Esterhazy's and Joseph Haydn secured the position of the old Werner.
One of the conditions of Haydn’s employment in 1761 was that he set a good example for the other musicians; he had to behave himself excellently and he had to resolve the problems between the musicians.
home.wxs.nl /~cmr/haydn/biograph/6166.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Canadian Journal of History: Landed Estates of the Esterhazy Princes: Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresia and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Esterhazy family consisted of many branches, but it was the princely branch which thereafter was the wealthiest magnate family in Hungary.
In this respect the present study serves as an important corrective to some fashionable trends in social history which would underestimate or even dismiss the impact of central government policies formulated by traditional elites, much as this dynamic tended to be overestimated in older traditional schools of historiography.
More than a valuable study of the Esterhazy family and the inhabitants of its estates in the eighteenth century, this book is therefore also an important analysis of the impact of enlightened absolutism at the local level.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_199708/ai_n8776264   (786 words)

  
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It is a crime that those people who wish to see a generous France take her place as leader of all the free and just nations are being accused of fomenting turmoil in the country, denounced by the very plotters who are conniving so shamelessly to foist this miscarriage of justice on the entire world.
Esterhazy told the scandal hungry press (L’Echo de Paris, 18 November 1897) that he had received messages, including a letter signed “Espérance” [Hope], from a mysterious veiled lady who was trying to save him from his enemies.
Major Alexandre-Alfred Ravary, the rapporteur for the staged Esterhazy trial, concluded in his pre-trial report stating the Esterhazy case that allegations against Esterhazy were proven irrelevant and that the case should be dismissed.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/guieuj/DreyfusCase/Iaccuse.htm   (8256 words)

  
 Fathers and Sons - New York Times
Esterhazy, the author of ''The Book of Hrabal,'' ''A Little Hungarian Pornography'' and ''She Loves Me,'' is bound simply to subvert it and turn it back on the reader.
The lives of his immediate clan were not unique, Esterhazy seems to say now; this family survived crueler periods and worse peril, and its story is only a tiny part of the vast canvas of human atrocity and absurdity.
There are hints that several of these chapters are extracts from memoirs of Esterhazy's grandfather, a prominent figure in interwar Hungary and a highly placed operator in the wartime puppet state.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD9103FF933A05756C0A9629C8B63   (684 words)

  
 The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) : Son reveals Count Esterhazy was Communist spy. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The revelation that Count Matyas Esterhazy, father of Peter Esterhazy, Hungary's best known writer, was an informer is the latest in a series of spy scandals to shake the country.
For centuries the Esterhazys were known as patrons of the arts: the family hosted the composer Joseph Hadyn in the 18th century.
But the Esterhazys lost everything under Communism, and their name and upper-class background made them a particular target for the vengeful functionaries of Budapest's Moscow-backed secret police.
static.highbeam.com /t/thescotsmanedinburghscotland/october052002/sonrevealscountesterhazywascommunistspy/index.html   (220 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hungarian wins German book prize
The 15,000 euro (£10,400) prize was awarded to Esterhazy, 53, best known for his epic work Celestial Harmonies, at the festival's close on Sunday.
Esterhazy told the audience at St Paul's church in Frankfurt that Europe was still struggling with its Nazi and communist past.
Esterhazy has won most literary prizes in his native country, including the Kossuth Prize in 1996.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3731528.stm   (230 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - EsterhAzy (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Paul, FUrst EsterhAzy von Galantha, 1635–1713, was elected palatine (regent) of Hungary in 1681 and distinguished himself in the defense of Vienna (1683) and the reconquest of Hungary from the Ottomans.
Nikolaus Joseph, one of the most lavish art patrons of all time and immensely wealthy, built the celebrated EsterhAzy palace in Eisenstadt, on the southern end of the Neusiedler Lake.
His nephew, Nikolaus, FUrst EsterhAzy von Galantha, 1765–1833, was offered (1809) the crown of Hungary by Napoleon I but refused it.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/Esterhaz.html   (287 words)

  
 Esterházy on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Le Hongrois Esterhazy reçoit le Prix de la paix des libraires allemands
Escritor húngaro Peter Esterhazy, Premio de la Paz de Libreros alemanes
It carries Haydn's portrait and a view of Esterhazy Castle, where he worked for nearly 30 years.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/esterhaz.asp   (510 words)

  
 France at War - The Dreyfus Case and the French 75
Major Esterhazy admitted much later, while in self-imposed exile in England that he was the one who had written the "bordereau" used to incriminate Dreyfus.
However, Esterhazy was never condemned by the French for espionage or for the part he had played in the framing of Captain Dreyfus.
Alfred Dreyfus was rushed to judgment and unjustly condemned because War Minister General Mercier had believed the falsehoods concocted by Sandherr and Henry, and because some of the graphology experts had inaccurately concluded that the author of the "borderau" was Captain Dreyfus.
www.worldwar1.com /france/dreyfus.htm   (2248 words)

  
 Peter Esterhazy - Harmonia Caelestis - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Peter Esterhazy wurde 1950 in Budapest geboren, wo er auch heute lebt.
Die Esterhazys, eine der großen Aristokratenfamilien Europas, haben sich über Jahrhunderte in die ungarische und habsburgische Geschichte eingeschrieben.
Mosaikförmig werden hier Namen, Anekdoten, Ereignisse der ungarischen Geschichte zusammengetragen - wie gesagt, der Esterhazys waren viele.
www.perlentaucher.de /buch/7376.html   (870 words)

  
 Cross & Spire Lutheran Parish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Redeemer Lutheran Church is in the town of Esterhazy, a town originally begun by a group of Hungarian families brought to the area by Count Esterhaz in 1886.
The present town of Esterhazy is on highway 22, about 8 kilometres north of the original church built by those new immigrants to Canada.
In both Stockholm and Esterhazy the churches in town work well together, and the events of the congregations are well attended by members of other congregations as well as their own.
cross-n-spire.faithweb.com   (288 words)

  
 She Loves Me:Esterhazy, Peter; Sollosy, Judith; Sollosy, Judith:0810115573:eCampus.com
She Loves Me is Peter Esterhazy's paean to women: beautiful and ugly, kind and nasty, fat and bony, monogamous and promiscuous, seductive, negative, rebellious, and voracious.
In ninety-seven short chapters this seductive novel contemplates love and desire and sex and hate, all from the point of view of a manly narrator who considers himself a great and successful lover, a womanizer, a man who may - or may not - be in love with all of the women of the world.
With his characteristic verbal pyrotechnics, the serenely jaded Esterhazy proves that there will always be another romance, and that love and hate spring from the same inexhaustible font.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0810115573   (153 words)

  
 Culture Youth and Recreation | Heritage Properties Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Esterhazy Flour Mill is a Municipal Heritage Property which occupies one lot in Esterhazy.
The heritage value of the Esterhazy Flour Mill lies in its status as only one of two pre-1914 flour mills remaining in Saskatchewan and its status as the oldest, most complete, and only remaining flour mill of wood frame construction in Saskatchewan.
The elevator is of crib construction with sloped shoulders, typical of the first generation elevators built in the Prairies, whereas the flour mill is of post and beam construction with large heavy timber beams running through out the structure.
www.cyr.gov.sk.ca /index.cfm?page=98&action=propdetails&id=224   (222 words)

  
 Gästebuch des Esterhazy.NET
Sie hiess ehemals Sandrina mit Vornamen und wurde von Juan Esterhazy de Galantha adoptiert.
It has been suggested that it is derived from the Hungarian surname.
You might want to check this out: http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/ Title:"tra i nobili c'è Dracula che però non morde", the latest article about the impostor who claims to be Philipp Esterhazy.
www.esterhazy.de /gaestebuch   (463 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn: Down the Danube by Peter Esterhazy
Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned — like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan — to undertake a voyage of discovery and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube.
Communicating his experiences through terse — and at times surreal — telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.
Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy takes the reader on a fascinating European journey of the imagination, down the Danube River, through Vienna, Budapest, and beyond the delta where the mighty river empties into the sea.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0810117606-0   (184 words)

  
 The Life of Emile Zola (1937 b 117')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Major Esterhazy (Robert Barrat) sends a letter to a German general that is stolen and given to the French general staff.
In Zola's trial the judge refuses to re-open the Dreyfus and Esterhazy cases.
When Esterhazy is called, the judge orders the court cleared.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1937/LifeofEmileZola.html   (533 words)

  
 >"J'ACCUSE ...!" EMILE ZOLA, ALFRED DREYFUS - Professor Wilkes - University of Georgia School of Law
The accusatory instrument filed by prosecutors focused on only one sentence of Zola's article, wherein he had asserted that the tribunal that found Esterhazy not guilty had known he was guilty and had acquitted him on command.
The charges plainly were an attempt by the government, spurred on by the military, to silence a heroic man who was bravely laboring to undo a hideous miscarriage of justice.
Even though the evidence introduced at the trial by the defense made it obvious that Esterhazy, not Dreyfus, was the traitor, and that the military was covering up the truth, Zola was convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalty of a year in jail.
www.law.uga.edu /academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/his9_jaccuse.html   (1204 words)

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