Hungarian Uruguayans
Hungarian Uruguayans are people born in Hungary who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Hungarian descent.
Overview
Hungarian Uruguayans are a local ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary.[1]
In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in Uruguay[2] They even had some influence within the Communist Party of Uruguay.[2]
In 1936, Hungarian migrants established the Hungarian Home of Uruguay (Template:Lang-hu), an ethnic association.[3]
There is also a small Jewish-Hungarian community,[4] they established their own association in the 1920s,[5] which in turn sent their representative to the Uruguayan Central Israeli Committee.[6]
There is an immigrant branch of the Batthyány noble family.[7]
Notable Hungarians in Uruguay
- Francisco José Debali (1791-1859), composer of the National Anthem of Uruguay[8]
- Déborah Gyurcsek (born 1978), female track and field athlete
- Adrian R. Krainer, biochemist and molecular geneticist
- Jorge Polgar (born 1967), economist
- Eduardo Sarlós (1938-1998), playwright and artist
- Krisztián Vadócz (born 1985), professional footballer
- Carlos Végh Garzón (1902–1984), politician, Minister of Finance
- Alejandro Végh Villegas (1928-2017), economist, Minister of Economics and Finance
- Carlos A. Vegh (born 1958), economist
See also
References
- ^ Opportunities for Hungarian-Uruguayan relations (in Hungarian)
- ^ a b Hungarian workers in Latin America (in Spanish)
- ^ Uruguayi Magyar Otthon (in Hungarian)
- ^ Christoph Marx; Christine Hatzky; Waltraud Kokot; Hauke Dorsch (2004). Periplus 2004: Jahrbuch für Aussereuropäische geschichte. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8258-7820-7.
- ^ Hungarian Israeli Community of Uruguay Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ The history of the Batthyány family (in Hungarian)
- ^ Hungarians in Latin America (in Hungarian)
External links
- Hungarian Home in Uruguay (in Spanish)
- Hungarian Home in Uruguay at Facebook
- Podcast of the Hungarian Home in Uruguay
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