The Boer People in Hungarian Cultural History

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century in Hungary the events of the Second Anglo-Boer War was followed with a great attention. Not only the press, but poets, writers, even scholars widely reacted to it, because it had evoked the memory of the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848. In his study the author surveys the contemporary responses on the basis of wide resource recovery, but he responds to the written manifestations by the recently intensified attention in Hungary toward the topic as well. In connection with this archival and analytical data collection he refers to the historiographic points of view (commando or partisan struggle, concentration camp etc.) that came to the fore in Hungarian research, which during the last two centuries not only historians, but a number of graduate and/or PhD students chose as a topic for essays or dissertations.