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The '''Balassi Institute''' is a worldwide [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]] [[Culture|cultural]] organization funded by the ministry of education and culture of [[Hungary]]. The institute spreads and promotes [[Hungarian language]] and [[Hungarian culture|culture]] aboard. The Institute plays a key role in developing and attaining [[Hungary]]’s objectives in the area of [[cultural diplomacy]]. As an organizational hub, it coordinates and directs all activities provided by Hungarian institutes abroad.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.balassiintezet.hu/en/balassi-institute-hq/ |title=Bálint Institute - About us |publisher=www.balassiintezet.hu |date= |accessdate=2014-02-21}}</ref><br /> |
The '''Balassi Institute''' is a worldwide [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]] [[Culture|cultural]] organization funded by the ministry of education and culture of [[Hungary]]. The institute spreads and promotes [[Hungarian language]] and [[Hungarian culture|culture]] aboard. The Institute plays a key role in developing and attaining [[Hungary]]’s objectives in the area of [[cultural diplomacy]]. As an organizational hub, it coordinates and directs all activities provided by Hungarian institutes abroad.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.balassiintezet.hu/en/balassi-institute-hq/ |title=Bálint Institute - About us |publisher=www.balassiintezet.hu |date= |accessdate=2014-02-21}}</ref><br /> |
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It is named after [[Hungarian literature|hungarian]] [[Renaissance]] lyric poet [[Bálint Balassi]]. |
It is named after [[Hungarian literature|hungarian]] [[Renaissance]] lyric poet [[Bálint Balassi]]. |
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| ⚫ | [[Bálint Balassi]] ([[1554]]–[[1594]]) was a [[Renaissance]] lyric poet and regarded as a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] in the deepest sense, the first to write the words "my sweet homeland" in reference to [[Hungary]], a phrase which became a renowned canon of [[patriotism]] in [[Hungarian literature]] throughout the centuries that followed. Born into one of the wealthiest and most powerful [[Nobility|noble]] families of the country, with strong ties to the [[Habsburg]] court, Balassi was educated by the [[Protestant]] reformer Péter Bornemisza and was already writing notable verse at a very young age. Unfortunately, his short life was marked by financial ruin and a series of social failures: an unhappy marriage, unrequited love, slander, legal troubles and a less than prominent military career. He died early in the war against the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] occupation of [[Hungary]] during the siege of [[Esztergom]].<br /> |
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| ⚫ | Balassi was a true Renaissance figure, a child of his age, a noble writer who was reckless in romance and hot-tempered, but also a [[Renaissance Humanist|humanist]] with exceptionally refined taste. It was he who was responsible for the rebirth of [[Hungarian literature]], transforming [[Latin]] into the Hungarian language, making him the second world-class Hungarian poet after [[Janus Pannonius]]. A worthwhile contemporary of [[Ronsard]], [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]] and [[Philip Sidney|Sidney]], he was a loyal adherent to the Neo-Platonic philosophy of love and [[Francesco Petrarch]]'s mode of poetic expression, which he refreshed with local flavor and new poetic solutions. Having been influenced by [[German literature|German]], [[Italian literature|Italian]], [[Polish literature|Polish]], [[Turkish literature|Turkish]] and perhaps also [[Croatian literature|Croatian]], Balassi absorbed Neo-Latin poetry at an early age, and eventually came to hold the same position in the history of Hungarian literature as that of Petrarch in Italian literature. Poems had already been written in Hungarian before him, but Balassi's technique of literary expression – fictive lyrical autobiographies in cycles of verse – was his true innovative gift to Hungarian literature. According to traditional historic accounts, he assembled his poems together, written in "his own hand" shortly before or after he left Hungary for [[Poland]] in [[1589]]. The unprinted volume circulated for years thereafter and comprised a collection of 100 poems that depicted Balassi as a heavenly version of himself; hopelessly struggling with love, losing to Cupid, burned on the pyre of passion, relinquishing Julia, leaving his homeland, searching for his old love in a new one, embarking on a pilgrimage through hell, arguing with God in poetic guilt. It was this "virtual" Balassi that took the place of the "real" unsuccessful one and sparked the imagination of subsequent generations. His students not only respected him as an emblematic figure of Hungarian literature (and of the Hungarian language in a broader sense), but also of culture, worthy of following as a European model for the renewal of civilized life.<br /> |
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| ⚫ | The more we know about [[Bálint Balassi]] and his work, the more he seems to be a poet who transcended borders. He was literally born on a border, in the Northern Hungarian-Turkish territory near [[Poland]]. His mother-tongue was Hungarian, but he probably learned Slovakian and Polish from his nanny first. There is no doubting the honesty of his religious emotions, although he belonged to several denominations during his life - raised by a [[Lutheran]], [[Calvinist]] parents, and then the influence of [[Jesuits]] during his adulthood. He lived for years with his father in the Court of [[Vienna]] and in the royal courts of [[Transylvania]] and [[Poland]], perhaps becoming more familiar with the refined order of royal style and etiquette than any other Hungarian. His religious verse dealt with the passion of romance while his romantic poems used theological terms and soared to religious heights. Researchers have debated for years whether his descriptive language and place in Hungarian literature was that of the first Renaissance poet or that of the last [[troubadour]]. Whatever the case may be, Balassi was both archaic and ahead of his time, renewing contemporary fashion by reaching back to ancient sources and later incorporating features of [[Mannerism]] and [[Turkey|Turkish]] poetic forms. Moreover, he did so in Hungarian, which offered no previous traditional model to follow. According to legend, he spoke seven languages in addition to his own: [[Latin]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Slovak language|Slovakian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Croatian language|Croatian]]. Bálint Balassi was not only the first, but also the most deeply European Hungarian [[poet]], and to this day his work continues to exemplify the openness of Hungarian intellectual life to [[Europe]] and the world.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.balassiintezet.hu/en/balassi-2013040404/ |title=Bálint Balassi |publisher=www.balassiintezet.hu |date= |accessdate=2014-02-20}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | [[Bálint Balassi]] ([[1554]]–[[1594]]) was a [[Renaissance]] lyric poet and regarded as a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] in the deepest sense, the first to write the words "my sweet homeland" in reference to [[Hungary]], a phrase which became a renowned canon of [[patriotism]] in [[Hungarian literature]] throughout the centuries that followed. Born into one of the wealthiest and most powerful [[Nobility|noble]] families of the country, with strong ties to the [[Habsburg]] court, Balassi was educated by the [[Protestant]] reformer Péter Bornemisza and was already writing notable verse at a very young age. Unfortunately, his short life was marked by financial ruin and a series of social failures: an unhappy marriage, unrequited love, slander, legal troubles and a less than prominent military career. He died early in the war against the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] occupation of [[Hungary]] during the siege of [[Esztergom]].<br /> |
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| ⚫ | Balassi was a true Renaissance figure, a child of his age, a noble writer who was reckless in romance and hot-tempered, but also a [[Renaissance Humanist|humanist]] with exceptionally refined taste. It was he who was responsible for the rebirth of [[Hungarian literature]], transforming [[Latin]] into the Hungarian language, making him the second world-class Hungarian poet after [[Janus Pannonius]]. A worthwhile contemporary of [[Ronsard]], [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]] and [[Philip Sidney|Sidney]], he was a loyal adherent to the Neo-Platonic philosophy of love and [[Francesco Petrarch]]'s mode of poetic expression, which he refreshed with local flavor and new poetic solutions. Having been influenced by [[German literature|German]], [[Italian literature|Italian]], [[Polish literature|Polish]], [[Turkish literature|Turkish]] and perhaps also [[Croatian literature|Croatian]], Balassi absorbed Neo-Latin poetry at an early age, and eventually came to hold the same position in the history of Hungarian literature as that of Petrarch in Italian literature. Poems had already been written in Hungarian before him, but Balassi's technique of literary expression – fictive lyrical autobiographies in cycles of verse – was his true innovative gift to Hungarian literature. According to traditional historic accounts, he assembled his poems together, written in "his own hand" shortly before or after he left Hungary for [[Poland]] in [[1589]]. The unprinted volume circulated for years thereafter and comprised a collection of 100 poems that depicted Balassi as a heavenly version of himself; hopelessly struggling with love, losing to Cupid, burned on the pyre of passion, relinquishing Julia, leaving his homeland, searching for his old love in a new one, embarking on a pilgrimage through hell, arguing with God in poetic guilt. It was this "virtual" Balassi that took the place of the "real" unsuccessful one and sparked the imagination of subsequent generations. His students not only respected him as an emblematic figure of Hungarian literature (and of the Hungarian language in a broader sense), but also of culture, worthy of following as a European model for the renewal of civilized life.<br /> |
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| ⚫ | The more we know about [[Bálint Balassi]] and his work, the more he seems to be a poet who transcended borders. He was literally born on a border, in the Northern Hungarian-Turkish territory near [[Poland]]. His mother-tongue was Hungarian, but he probably learned Slovakian and Polish from his nanny first. There is no doubting the honesty of his religious emotions, although he belonged to several denominations during his life - raised by a [[Lutheran]], [[Calvinist]] parents, and then the influence of [[Jesuits]] during his adulthood. He lived for years with his father in the Court of [[Vienna]] and in the royal courts of [[Transylvania]] and [[Poland]], perhaps becoming more familiar with the refined order of royal style and etiquette than any other Hungarian. His religious verse dealt with the passion of romance while his romantic poems used theological terms and soared to religious heights. Researchers have debated for years whether his descriptive language and place in Hungarian literature was that of the first Renaissance poet or that of the last [[troubadour]]. Whatever the case may be, Balassi was both archaic and ahead of his time, renewing contemporary fashion by reaching back to ancient sources and later incorporating features of [[Mannerism]] and [[Turkey|Turkish]] poetic forms. Moreover, he did so in Hungarian, which offered no previous traditional model to follow. According to legend, he spoke seven languages in addition to his own: [[Latin]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Slovak language|Slovakian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Croatian language|Croatian]]. Bálint Balassi was not only the first, but also the most deeply European Hungarian [[poet]], and to this day his work continues to exemplify the openness of Hungarian intellectual life to [[Europe]] and the world.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.balassiintezet.hu/en/balassi-2013040404/ |title=Bálint Balassi |publisher=www.balassiintezet.hu |date= |accessdate=2014-02-20}}</ref> |
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== Locations == |
== Locations == |
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Since 2002 the headquarters of the Balassi Institute is located at Somlói út 51, [[Budapest]]. |
Since 2002 the headquarters of the Balassi Institute is located at Somlói út 51, [[Budapest]]. |
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| Founded | 1927 [1] |
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| Founder | Government of Hungary |
| Type | Cultural institution |
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Area served | Worldwide (28 countries) |
| Product | Hungarian cultural and language education |
Key people | Pál Hatos Ph.D (Director General) |
Employees | 266 |
| Website | www.balassiintezet.hu |
The Balassi Institute is a worldwide non-profit cultural organization funded by the ministry of education and culture of Hungary. The institute spreads and promotes Hungarian language and culture aboard. The Institute plays a key role in developing and attaining Hungary’s objectives in the area of cultural diplomacy. As an organizational hub, it coordinates and directs all activities provided by Hungarian institutes abroad.[2]
It is named after hungarian Renaissance lyric poet Bálint Balassi.
History
1895
Hungarian Historical Institute of Rome founded (worked till 1913)
1917
Hungarian Scientific Institute Constantinople founded (worked only till 1918)
1920
Hungarian Historical Institute of Vienna founded
1923
Hungarian Historical Institute of Rome reestablished
1924
Collegium Hungaricum Vienna and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin founded
1927
Collegium Hungaricum Rome (also called as Hungarian Academy of Rome) founded
Hungaro-french university informing office founded (from 1933 it was called Hungarian Study Centre of France)
1948
Institutes opened in Sofia and Warsaw
1949
Institute of Cultural Relations founded
1953
Institute opened in Prague
1973
Institute opened in East-Berlin (House of the Hungarian Culture)
1974
Institute opened in Cairo
1978
Institute opened in Delhi
1980
Institute opened in Helsinki
1990
Institutes opened in Stuttgart and Moscow
1991
Institute opened in Bratislava
1992
Institute opened in Bucharest
1992
Institute opened in Tallin
1999
Institute opened in London
2001
Institute opened in New York
2004
Institute opened in Brussels
2006
Institute opened in Sfantu Gheorghe
2013
Institutes opened in Beijing and Istanbul
2014
Institute opened in Zagreb
Bálint Balassi
Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Renaissance lyric poet and regarded as a Hungarian in the deepest sense, the first to write the words "my sweet homeland" in reference to Hungary, a phrase which became a renowned canon of patriotism in Hungarian literature throughout the centuries that followed. Born into one of the wealthiest and most powerful noble families of the country, with strong ties to the Habsburg court, Balassi was educated by the Protestant reformer Péter Bornemisza and was already writing notable verse at a very young age. Unfortunately, his short life was marked by financial ruin and a series of social failures: an unhappy marriage, unrequited love, slander, legal troubles and a less than prominent military career. He died early in the war against the Turkish occupation of Hungary during the siege of Esztergom.
Balassi was a true Renaissance figure, a child of his age, a noble writer who was reckless in romance and hot-tempered, but also a humanist with exceptionally refined taste. It was he who was responsible for the rebirth of Hungarian literature, transforming Latin into the Hungarian language, making him the second world-class Hungarian poet after Janus Pannonius. A worthwhile contemporary of Ronsard, Spenser and Sidney, he was a loyal adherent to the Neo-Platonic philosophy of love and Francesco Petrarch's mode of poetic expression, which he refreshed with local flavor and new poetic solutions. Having been influenced by German, Italian, Polish, Turkish and perhaps also Croatian, Balassi absorbed Neo-Latin poetry at an early age, and eventually came to hold the same position in the history of Hungarian literature as that of Petrarch in Italian literature. Poems had already been written in Hungarian before him, but Balassi's technique of literary expression – fictive lyrical autobiographies in cycles of verse – was his true innovative gift to Hungarian literature. According to traditional historic accounts, he assembled his poems together, written in "his own hand" shortly before or after he left Hungary for Poland in 1589. The unprinted volume circulated for years thereafter and comprised a collection of 100 poems that depicted Balassi as a heavenly version of himself; hopelessly struggling with love, losing to Cupid, burned on the pyre of passion, relinquishing Julia, leaving his homeland, searching for his old love in a new one, embarking on a pilgrimage through hell, arguing with God in poetic guilt. It was this "virtual" Balassi that took the place of the "real" unsuccessful one and sparked the imagination of subsequent generations. His students not only respected him as an emblematic figure of Hungarian literature (and of the Hungarian language in a broader sense), but also of culture, worthy of following as a European model for the renewal of civilized life.
The more we know about Bálint Balassi and his work, the more he seems to be a poet who transcended borders. He was literally born on a border, in the Northern Hungarian-Turkish territory near Poland. His mother-tongue was Hungarian, but he probably learned Slovakian and Polish from his nanny first. There is no doubting the honesty of his religious emotions, although he belonged to several denominations during his life - raised by a Lutheran, Calvinist parents, and then the influence of Jesuits during his adulthood. He lived for years with his father in the Court of Vienna and in the royal courts of Transylvania and Poland, perhaps becoming more familiar with the refined order of royal style and etiquette than any other Hungarian. His religious verse dealt with the passion of romance while his romantic poems used theological terms and soared to religious heights. Researchers have debated for years whether his descriptive language and place in Hungarian literature was that of the first Renaissance poet or that of the last troubadour. Whatever the case may be, Balassi was both archaic and ahead of his time, renewing contemporary fashion by reaching back to ancient sources and later incorporating features of Mannerism and Turkish poetic forms. Moreover, he did so in Hungarian, which offered no previous traditional model to follow. According to legend, he spoke seven languages in addition to his own: Latin, German, Italian, Slovakian, Polish, Turkish and Croatian. Bálint Balassi was not only the first, but also the most deeply European Hungarian poet, and to this day his work continues to exemplify the openness of Hungarian intellectual life to Europe and the world.[3]
Locations
Since 2002 the headquarters of the Balassi Institute is located at Somlói út 51, Budapest.
Hungarian Cultural Institutes
The first Hungarian institutes abroad, the so-called Collegium Hungaricum, were established by Kunó Klebelsberg (minister of culture at the time) in the 1920s in order to build relations with the international scientific community (in Vienna and Berlin in 1924, in Rome and Paris in 1927). Organising scientific life and education make up a fundamental part of the institutes’ activity even today. Apart from differences shaped by history, there are also variations in the scope of activities, services and equipment of the institutes. Some of them maintain libraries, Hungarian language teaching centers and galleries in addition to their primary work in culture, education and organising science.[4]
The Balassi Institute has 23 branches in 21 countries around the world:
Hungarian Cultural Centre Beijing
Hungarian Institute Belgrade (Serbia)
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), Berlin (Germany) HU DE
Hungarian Institute Bratislava (Slovakia) HU SK
Balassi Institute Brussels, Cultural Service of the Hungarian Embassy Brussels (Belgium) HU EN
Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest (Romania) HU RO
Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor, Cairo (Egypt) HU EN
Hungarian Information and Culural Centre, Delhi (India) HU EN
Hungarian Cultural and Scientific Centre, Helsinki (Finland) HU FI
Hungarian Cultural Centre Istanbul
Hungarian Cultural Centre London (Great Britain) HU EN
Hungarian Cultural, Scientific and Information Centre, Moscow (Russia) HU RU
Hungarian Cultural Center, New York (USA) EN- Hungarian Institute Paris (France) HU FR
Hungarian Institute, Prague (Czech Republic) HU CZ
Hungarian Academy Rome (Italy) HU IT- Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest, Sfantu Gheorghe Branch Office (Romania) HU
Hungarian Cultural Centre Sofia (Bulgaria) HU BG- Hungarian Cultural and Information Centre, Stuttgart (Germany) HU DE
Hungarian Institute Tallinn (Estonia) HU ET EN
Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna (Austria) HU DE
Hungarian Cultural Institute Warsaw (Poland) HU PL
Hungarian Cultural Institute Zagreb (Croatia)
The network of the diplomats for culture and education
Diplomats specialised in education and culture promote Hungarian culture and education in countries where no such institutional representation is ensured.[5]
Diplomats operate at the following foreign representations:
Joint Institutes
Joint institutes are independently functioning institutions abroad promoting Hungarian culture, involved in broadly defined Hungarian cultural diplomacy via partnership and joint institutional agreements with the Balassi Institute.
The aim of establishing the network was to enhance cooperation between coexisting institutions and the Balassi Institute in order to reach their shared strategic goals. Henceforth, the Balassi Institute supports certain programs of member insititutes as well as their cultural, scientific and educational projects and helps them build relations with private and public institutions in Hungary.[6]
Members of the Network:
- Centre of Hungarian Education and Culture in Croatia - Eszék (Osijek), Croatia
Hungarian Minority Centre of Culture - Lendva (Lendava), Slovenia Homepage- Cnesa Educational and Cultural Insitution - Magyarkanizsa (Kanjiza), Serbia Homepage
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Cultural Assotiation - Göteborg , Sweden Homepage
Hungarian Youth Club Vietnam - Hanoi, Vietnam Homepage
References
- ^ "July 5. Open day at the Balassi Institute (Július 5. Nyílt Nap a Balassi Intézetben)". www.balassiintezet.hu. 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2014-02-20. Template:Hu icon
- ^ "Bálint Institute - About us". www.balassiintezet.hu. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ "Bálint Balassi". www.balassiintezet.hu. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ "International Directorate". www.balassiintezet.hu. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ "The network of the diplomats for culture and education". www.balassiintezet.hu. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ "The network of Joint Institutes". www.balassiintezet.hu. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
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