Their highest placing competitor was Hamvas Agnes Hajdene, at 22nd place in the women's competition.

Béla Hamvas ( 23 March 1897 – 7 November 1968 ) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic.

Béla Hamvas was born in 23 March 1897 in Eperjes ( Prešov ).

His father, József Hamvas was an evangelical pastor, teacher of German and Hungarian, journalist and writer.

He never reached the battlefield, as his train was hit by a shell, wounding Hamvas, who was discharged.

From 1945 Hamvas belonged to the spiritual renaissance for three years, during which time he edited the series Leaflets of the University Press, held lectures and published the metaphysical Anthologia humana: Ötezer év bölcsessége ( 1946, Human Anthology – The Wisdom of Five Millennia ), the fourth edition of which was banned and pulped by the communist regime.

This concept of modern art was attacked by the Marxist ideologist, György Lukács, and Hamvas was dismissed from the library and silenced for the rest of his life.

His early essays were published in Magyar Hüperion ( 1936, Hungarian Hyperion ), marking the end of his first period of thinking, to be followed by Szellem és egzisztencia ( 1941, Spirit and Existence ), an essay discussing the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, one of the main inspirations for Hamvas ’ thinking.

Hamvas ’ three shorter novels, Szilveszter ( 1957, New Year ’ s Eve ), Bizonyos tekintetben ( 1961, From a Certain Aspect ) and Ugyanis ( 1966 – 67, Therefore ) were published together in 1991, followed by his collection of essays, Patmosz ( 1959 – 1966 ; Patmos ) in 1992, whose title alludes to John the Apostle ’ s exile to the island of Patmos, and the second part of Scientia Sacra: az őskori emberiség szellemi hagyománya II.

* Endre Hamvas ( apostolic coadjutor 18.

The family moved to Pozsony in 1898, where Hamvas completed his basic studies in 1915.

They move to Budapest, where Hamvas attended Péter Pázmány University.

Béla Hamvas died of a hemorrhagic stroke in 1968.

Béla Hamvas found his form of expression in the essay, a genre at once literary and philosophical.

Analyzing the spiritual crisis of the age, Hamvas read himself into the metaphysical tradition, the collective spiritual knowledge of humanity conveyed by sacred books.

Hamvas saw in surrealism and abstract art the heritage of magic, the “ tremendous presence of a higher existence ”, and opposed “ realistic ” art.

* Biography and photos of Hamvas Béla at HamvasBéla. org

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