Preservations

In Diósgyőr, in a family home overlooking the peaks of distant mountains—one might almost imagine oneself in Liptó—lives Elemér Platthy (or Plathy). The view from his glass-walled living room inspires this involuntary thought. His family, too, hails from that wild, bear-haunted land, from which they…

Original coat of arms grants issued by King Charles IV—although the most recent of their kind—are nevertheless rare, and thus possess significant historical and heraldic value. This rarity is due in part to the monarch's exceptionally brief reign, lasting only two years (1916–1918), but also…

In March 2025, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation acquired ten documents related to Magyaróvár from the years between 1794 and 1849 from a private individual in Budapest. According to the attached expert opinion, the small collection was already in the sights of one of the…

The Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation brought this thick, beautifully displayed volume home from the United States, New Jersey. Its Latin title is: Elenchus Biliczensium litteralium instrumentorum confectus 1808. (“List of Bélicz documents made in 1808”). Bélic, i.e. Kis- and Nagybélic, was located in the historical…

This beautiful volume came into the possession of the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation from a private individual in Pécs, which contains summaries in Latin of civil, divorce and criminal cases concluded at the Seven-Person Board – the court of appeal of the curia – in…

Lajos Petri (before 1928, his birth name was Lajos Pick), whose father was Márk Pick, the founder of the Pick Salami Factory in Szeged – worked as a trained and qualified sculptor (1884–1963). His mother was Katalin Weisz, the daughter of the rabbi of Lugos.…