On September 20, the day of the birth of the world-famous Hungarian sailor, soldier, and geographic writer, the Hungarian National Museum will present valuable contemporary documents about Móric Benyovszky (1741-1786) that were little known until recently and have recently arrived in our country.
Nearly a thousand pages of American, Russian, French, and Austrian material are being made public for the first time: historians, archivists, and researchers are publishing them to make the picture, which was previously mainly based on legends, more complete and closer to reality. ( You can also read about its history on our portal. )
As part of the Benyovszky Memorial Year, the musical Benyovszky will be presented, a public square will be named and a statue erected in his memory, the Mór Jókai and Móric Benyovszky , and the document with the count's coat of arms donated to Mária Terézia Benyovszky will also be published. Magyar Posta issued a commemorative stamp, and the Magyar Nemzeti Bank issued a commemorative coin. Memorials for Benyovszky are held among Hungarian communities across the border, and also in Poland, Slovakia, the United States of America, France, Taiwan and Madagascar.
The task of the international program of the commemorative year, the Benyovszky scientific conference, is to implement one of the important messages of the anniversary year: let's know more, have a more realistic picture of this XVIII. about the life of a world-famous Hungarian traveler, sailor, and soldier in the 19th century. The legends and often fanciful stories created over the centuries have created a variety of images about him, and perhaps one of the most important efforts of us Hungarians in these researches to clarify reality is to contribute to all of this with the tools of science.
Further information is available at www.benyovszky.hu
