Author Archive | Tibor Farkas

Bela Hargittay was a twelve year old boy living in the heart of Budapest, and who loved to play soccer, when the 1956 Hungarian Revolution quickly disrupted his life and the life of his family forever and set him on an entirely unexpected journey to America. Bela was living with his mother, Olga, and his […]

Thomas was born in Hungary in Szekesfehervar. He attended Middle School at the Franciscan Boarding School in Esztergom. In 1943, he was admitted to the Gabor Aron Military Academy. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, the school moved near the western border of the country. As the Russian Army attacked Hungary in 1944 and […]

Dr. Jozsef M. Berty is the holder of a D.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. He has retired from Union Carbide in 1976 after almost 20 years with the company, and became president of his own company, Berty Reaction Engineers, Ltd.He was also a professor of chemical engineering at the […]

Zoltán Rozsnyai (January 29, 1926 – September 10, 1990) was a Hungarian conductor and musical director. Born in Budapest, he was a graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he studied under Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók, and Ernest von Dohnányi, and conducting under János Ferencsik, among others. Already a concert pianist at the […]

Born into a middle class family and raised in Sopron until the age of 19, I spent the next 6 years in Budapest, first attending the College of Economics and earning a Red Diploma in Industrial Planning, then working in the accounting department of a large steel manufacturing company until the outbreak of the 1956 […]

In 1970, with Robert W. Poole, Jr. and Manuel Klausner, he purchased Reason magazine, which has since become the leading libertarian periodical in America. Machan edited Reason for two years and was the editor of Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for 25 years.