Endre Ady 1877-1919 [antikvár]

ENDRE ADY (22nd November 1877 - 27th January 1919) In summer of 1867 Habsburg Francis Joseph I., Austrian emperor was crowned Hungárián king. The splendid eeremony has put an etid to a longer historical proeess and a compromise came into existence called the ,,Compromise of 1867" in the Hungárián historiography. Accordingly the Austrian bourgeois have concluded an agreement with the Hungárián landowner nobility eoncerning the legal, political and economical questions of the joint wielding of power. After being the weakness of the Habsburg empire, an eternally frightening, conquerred Eastern dominion for 18 years, now Hungary became the support of Vienna; a new Great Power was förmed in Central East Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which has played an important role in the international politics till its dissolution in autumn of 1918. The progress of the capitalistic evolution which has slowed down in 1849 by the fali of the Hungárián bourgeois revolution and the national war of indenpendence could now accelerate from 1867. However the Hungárián nobility thus participating in the wielding of power has preserved the privileges together with the heavy burden of the mediaevei inheritance which in 1848—49 could unfortunately not reach to be wound up. The system of the latifundiums set limits to the advanced forms of land usage and fetter the free delevopment of the agrarian country. At the other side of the social barricade is the assembly of the paupers, the John Lacklands; opportunity to work in the industrial establishments of the cities was in store only for a small portion of this crowd. Most of them strove to earn enough for the whole year during the summer husbandry works and in their plans the remote America has often emerged as the „Land of