History in Poetry

1. HISTORY IN POETRY
– THE 19TH CENTURY.
MULTILINGUAL
CORPUS AND
CONNECTION OF
ARCHIVE MATERIAL
Maria BOSTENARU DAN

2. Overview
 Family context of the manuscript in history
 The manuscript
 Digital work
 Discussion and conclusions

3. Family context of the manuscript
in history

4. Family context
 József Varga (1813-1894) – including 1848
 Research by János Fekete
 Redemptus
 Maria Theresia 1743 – Kiskunfélegyháza
 1526 Turks
 Ferenczszállás /Petofiszállás
 Dóczy commerciants
 Dóczy Pál – Ödön Lechner
 Town hall
 100 years
 Danube Swabians

7. The manuscript

8. The manuscript (1)
 Literary work of poetry (inst. of poetry)
 Autobiography
 Popular songs – incl. Kossuth nóták (inst. of music)
 Location of Petöfi
 Verses of autobiography longer
 Parts end with drawings (costumes, agriculture)

9. The manuscript (2)
 History work
 1848
 Cholera epidemic
 Division of Ferenczszállás (agrar orientation:
cereals > wine)
 Arrival of commerciants and end of feudal order
 redemption
 Kiskún Museum
 1870-1930 images
 Textual and visual material
 lecture

10. Parts
 1. Childhood,
 2. Poor youth,
 3. Life at the National Guard,
 4. Sheppard life,
 5. Life around 50 working the field,
 6. Widowship,
 7. Senile life

13. 1848

15. Digital work

16. Digital work (1, 2)
 Scanning the manuscript
 Transcription in MS word
 Transcription in today‘s language – corpus
(regionalism)
 Creation of speech (youtube)
 Translation – corpus
 Printed book and e-book

17. Digital work (3)
 Connection to historical ressources
 Kiskunfélegyháza manual (archives concerning
the city – hardcopy)
 Reference to historic events or figures
 the battle of Világos,
 the history of Ferenczszállás and (Külsö) Galambos,
 the figures of Görgei and Laszlo Teleki
 Linking as alternative to footnotes

18. Digital work (4)
 Immaterial heritage for corpus
 Popular songs
 Drawings of costumes
 Agricultural habits
 Concepts
 Dedication to achieve a national state
 Belief in God

19. Digital work (5)
 Historical network connections
 Family tree
 Relationship to people and places in a graph
 Ödön Lechner
 Fights in 1848

20. Discussion and conclusions

21. Discussion
 Duty to publish – own affirmation (guest book)
 Copy of the manuscript – different paper
 Different dates of the manscript (age of 50 and
continued . 9th part)

24. Statement of age

25. Conclusion
 Not architecture, but cultural heritage (cultural
landscape – immaterial heritage)
 Manuscript as such – material and subject of
conservation studies/analysis
 Digital publication – immaterial part
 2014 ICOMOS year of Commemoration
 Memory
 of the 19th century
 The grave / cemeteries as landscape and as
commemoration

26. NeDiMAH

27. Thank you!