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SLOVENSKÝ LOKAJ NA VIEDENSKOM DVORE A JEHO VIRTUÁLNY ŽIVOT V MAĎARSKEJ POLITIKE A KULTÚRE

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Holec R., Bovan M.

Historický časopis (Historical Journal)

2012

vol. 60

issue 3

401 – 428

Anton Szmolen (1856 – 1939) worked as a servant at the Vienna court of the Emperor Franz Joseph from the 1894 to 1910. Therefore, his manuscript memoirs are a remarkable source of information on how a Slovak came into immediate proxi-mity to the monarch and his family, and how he remained loyal practically until his death. No less interesting is the mystification around this person, which made Szmolen’s memoirs an excellent example of manipulation and distortion, which he even believed himself to some extent. Even more interesting than his military and court career is the virtual life of Anton Szmolen. In the 20th century Hungarian political and intellectual discourse, his name became a symbol of Vienna, the hated court clique and its arrogance. He appeared in this function in caricatures in humorous magazines, in the theatre, songs and parliament. The Emperor and Vienna were indirectly attacked through Szmolen. This symbol also survived beyond the period of Szmolen’s service and even the fall of the Monarchy. Szmolen’s name was gradually transformed and acquired a wider meaning as a symbol of treason, lackeyism and service to foreign powers. It was used with this meaning even in the recent past.

SLUŽOBNÍCTVO V RETROSPEKTÍVE HISTORICKÝCH A SOCIÁLNYCH KONTEXTOV 19. A 20. STOROČIA Z POHĽADU ETNOLÓGIE

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Paríková M.

Studia Historica Nitriensia

2016

vol. 20

issue 1

243 – 251

Servants represented a stable social and professional structure of the urban and rural society. The article is focused at the servant institution in a context of factors that caused the persistence of this social phenomenon in Slovakia until the beginning of the second half of the 20th century. It points also at the creation and development of servants as a social reality in the condition of an obvious status and wealth difference among the society. According to the examples of the current times, the author points at the actuality that labour for hire in social history presents an important part of the economic strategy in society.

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SLOVENSKÝ LOKAJ NA VIEDENSKOM DVORE A JEHO VIRTUÁLNY ŽIVOT V MAĎARSKEJ POLITIKE A KULTÚRE

SLUŽOBNÍCTVO V RETROSPEKTÍVE HISTORICKÝCH A SOCIÁLNYCH KONTEXTOV 19. A 20. STOROČIA Z POHĽADU ETNOLÓGIE