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There is a monument in the town of Tapolcafo, (located
about 5 km [3 miles] southeast of the Hungarian city of Papa ) on the Fo ter (
Main Plaza ), which has been erected to honor towns people who died in World
War I (1914-1918). The list includes a Kalman Bartalos.
There is a street, Bartalos utca, in the city of Eger,
Hungary,
named after the famous historian, writer and prominent catholic clergyman Gyula
Bartalos. Gyula Bartalos of Bogya was born in 1839 and died in 1923. After his
return from Rome in 1879 he was made spiritual
director (lelki igazgato) of the seminary in Eger, later became director of confessions
(sekrestye igazgato) and honorary canon (tiszteletbeli kanonok).
Despite
poor health his literary output included many historical, archeological and
religious studies, poems and four religious plays. He is considered the founder
of the local (hevesvarmegyei) museum. In 1996 The Library of Congress in Washington DC listed two
of his books in its collection: "Magyarorszag Onallasanak es
Fuggetlensegenek Kivivasa 1074 es 1075-ben" (The struggle for Hungary 's independence in 1074 and 1075),
published in 1910, and "Az Olasz Irodalom es Muveszet Aranykorszaka"
(The golden age of literature and art in Italy), published in 1913.
There is a rare
disease named "Ectodermal
dysplasia Bartalos type" (in French: "Dysplasie
ectodermique type Bartalos"). It was first described by Professor Michael
Bartalos 1967 when he was 32 years old (Bartalos, M. and Saracli,T.: Ectodermal
dysplasia - a new variant? Journal de Genetic Humaine [Geneve], Vol.16, pages
49-56, 1967). Since then additional cases of this rare genetic disease were
observed confirming its validity as an independent pathological entity. On the
internet one can find the disease listed at National Institute of Health’s rare
disease site: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/asp/diseases/diseases.asp?=E
In the list of diseases whose name
begins with the letter “E” you will find the Ectodermal dysplasia Bartalos
type.
In 1988 the standard reference book on the etymology of Hungarian geographic
names mentions a vineyard called “Bartalos szolohegy” in the famed wine producing area of
Tokaj, westward of the village of Tolcsva (Zemplen county, Tokaj district),
(Kiss, Lajos: “Foldrajzi
nevek etimologiai szotara.” 4. edition, 1988, Budapest , Akademiai
kiado, Vol. 1, page 172.) Tolcsva is located approximately 8 miles southwest
from the city of Sarospatak and about 12 miles
northeast from the city of Tokaj
.
Close to a
century earlier another book mentioned “Bartalos Terhegy” as an outstanding vineyard in the
Tolcsva area of the same county (Borovszky, Samu editor: "Zemplen Varmegye" A volume in the
series "Magyarorszag Varmegyei es Varosai". Budapest , Orszagos Monografia Tarsasag.
(Published around 1900). It is likely that both entries referred to the same
wine producing area.
While discussing geographic names we should mention a forest
found on maps made in 1874 (Nema, Sandor: Gyor varmegye telepulesei 18 – 19.
szazadi keziratos terkepeken, 2003, Gyor, megyei Leveltar, pages 21 and 146)
and in 1876 (Horvath, Ildiko and Telekine Nagy, Ilona:”Csilizkoz foldrajzi nevei”.
2000, Pozsony, Kalligram kiado, page 63). Both maps depict the islands in the Danube river in the area of Szap and Asvany villages.
Both maps show on the southern portion of the island called Patko (to be
distinguished from the nearby islands of Kispatko and Kispatkoi elosziget) an
area marked as “Bartalos csalad erdeje” (“Bartalos Family’s Forest ”).
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