Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi
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Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi (born on 3 August 1888, in Kéménd
- died on 20 May 1971, in Budapest
) was a monk and a teacher of Bencés order. Várkonyi was a respected and well-known Hungarian philosopher, pedagogue and psychologist.
He was elected a private teacher at the Magyar Királyi Szent Erzsébet Tudományegyetem (Hungarian Royal Saint Elisabeth University) in Pécs. Later, between 1929-40 he became the head of Pedagogical and Psychological Instituti on at the University of Szeged. From 1940 Várkonyi was a professor in Kolozsvár and later in Budapest.
between 1906–1911 and graduated of a secondary school teacher (qualification). He accomplished his doctoral studies at the University of Budapest
in 1913 and became a private teacher in University of Pécs
. Between 1928-29 he was on a studytour in Sorbonne
in Paris.
Várkonyi was promoted a university professor on 27 December 1929, and from this time he was the Head of Pedagogical and Psychological Institution at Ferenc József University in Szeged
, where he held the Dean's Office for years. Between 1930-1940 Paul Schiller Harkai, László Tihamér Kiss, Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi and Ferenc Mérei
(he does after 1945) was in Hungary Jean Piaget
's theories of psychological popularizers.
On 19 October 1940 Várkonyi moved to Kolozsvár
to teach at the Hungarian Royal Franz Joseph
University, which had just then been reorganised. In Kolozsvár he was the Head of Psychological Institution for 7 semesters. Várkonyi fled to Budapest towards the end of the Second World War. In 1947 he left Bencés Order because started a family. He acquired a degree of academy of sciences in 1952 in accordance with the new academic system that was based on the Soviet model. He was a professor at the University of Budapest
until his retirement in 1954.
"I do not doubt that it is humanity again after the big crises of our age the ghost and truth will yearn and after the treasures of the soul, than himself Pascal
and his age."
Besides being a teacher, Várkonyi was a researcher into philosophy, pedagogy, psychology and infant behaviourism. Among his well-known students were Viola Tomori and Béla Reitzer. Other famous Hungarians such as Miklós Radnóti
, Gyula Ortutay
and Dezső Baróti, who were impressed by Várkonyi's intellectuality, attended his lectures. Radnóti, for example, a famous Hungarian poet, was deeply influenced by Várkonyi's lectures on infant behaviourism. Later in his career, Radnóti talks about his gloomy childhood experience in his poems.
Várkonyi continued teaching at the University of Kolozsvár during the years of war.
Várkonyi was a philosopher, psychologist, and a pedagogue in one person. For him philosophy was not only a discipline but a struggle for the answers to the ultimate questions of human existence.
leader, Lajos Duró and his colleagues published a memory volume of his respect, and name a lecture hall after him. Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső lecture hall is the integral part of Institute of Psychology today.
In 2008, it was issued on the occasion of the 120. anniversary of his birth Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső medallion, and it was handed over who makes work willing to make sacrifices on those who are the research of the educational psychology and his disseminations area.
Kamenín
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- died on 20 May 1971, in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
) was a monk and a teacher of Bencés order. Várkonyi was a respected and well-known Hungarian philosopher, pedagogue and psychologist.
He was elected a private teacher at the Magyar Királyi Szent Erzsébet Tudományegyetem (Hungarian Royal Saint Elisabeth University) in Pécs. Later, between 1929-40 he became the head of Pedagogical and Psychological Instituti on at the University of Szeged. From 1940 Várkonyi was a professor in Kolozsvár and later in Budapest.
His career
Várkonyi pursued his academic studies at The Teacher Training College of Bencés Abbey in PannonhalmaPannonhalma
Pannonhalma is a town in western Hungary, in Győr-Moson-Sopron county with approximately 4,000 inhabitants. It is about from Győr. Archduke Otto Habsburg's heart is kept at the Pannonhalma Archabbey, while his body was laid at the Capuchin Crypt in the old Imperial capital of Vienna.-History:The...
between 1906–1911 and graduated of a secondary school teacher (qualification). He accomplished his doctoral studies at the University of Budapest
University of Budapest
The Eötvös Loránd University or ELTE, founded in 1635, is the largest university in Hungary, located in Budapest.-History:The university was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány. Leadership was given over to the Jesuits...
in 1913 and became a private teacher in University of Pécs
University of Pécs
The University of Pécs is the Hungarian university with the largest number of students and faculties.-History:...
. Between 1928-29 he was on a studytour in Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
in Paris.
Várkonyi was promoted a university professor on 27 December 1929, and from this time he was the Head of Pedagogical and Psychological Institution at Ferenc József University in Szeged
Szeged
' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
, where he held the Dean's Office for years. Between 1930-1940 Paul Schiller Harkai, László Tihamér Kiss, Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi and Ferenc Mérei
Ferenc Mérei
Ferenc Mérei was a Hungarian psychologist and educator.- Early life :Born in Budapest into a bourgeois family, Mérei often spent time in his parents’ photography studio at the Garay Bazaar. He did not like school, where he felt excluded and his teachers' brutality caused him much pain...
(he does after 1945) was in Hungary Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
's theories of psychological popularizers.
On 19 October 1940 Várkonyi moved to Kolozsvár
Cluj
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to teach at the Hungarian Royal Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...
University, which had just then been reorganised. In Kolozsvár he was the Head of Psychological Institution for 7 semesters. Várkonyi fled to Budapest towards the end of the Second World War. In 1947 he left Bencés Order because started a family. He acquired a degree of academy of sciences in 1952 in accordance with the new academic system that was based on the Soviet model. He was a professor at the University of Budapest
Elte
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until his retirement in 1954.
Work
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
and his age."
Besides being a teacher, Várkonyi was a researcher into philosophy, pedagogy, psychology and infant behaviourism. Among his well-known students were Viola Tomori and Béla Reitzer. Other famous Hungarians such as Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti, birth name Miklós Glatter was a Hungarian poet who died in The Holocaust.-Personality and early life:...
, Gyula Ortutay
Gyula Ortutay
Gyula Ortutay was a Hungarian ethnographer and politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1947 and 1950.-Early life:...
and Dezső Baróti, who were impressed by Várkonyi's intellectuality, attended his lectures. Radnóti, for example, a famous Hungarian poet, was deeply influenced by Várkonyi's lectures on infant behaviourism. Later in his career, Radnóti talks about his gloomy childhood experience in his poems.
Várkonyi continued teaching at the University of Kolozsvár during the years of war.
Várkonyi was a philosopher, psychologist, and a pedagogue in one person. For him philosophy was not only a discipline but a struggle for the answers to the ultimate questions of human existence.
His recollection
In 1988, on the occasion of the 100. anniversary of his birth Institute of Psychology (Szeged)Institute of Psychology (Szeged)
Institute of Psychology University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryThe Institute of Psychology is located at 2 Egyetem Street, at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Arts....
leader, Lajos Duró and his colleagues published a memory volume of his respect, and name a lecture hall after him. Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső lecture hall is the integral part of Institute of Psychology today.
In 2008, it was issued on the occasion of the 120. anniversary of his birth Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső medallion, and it was handed over who makes work willing to make sacrifices on those who are the research of the educational psychology and his disseminations area.
Studies (selecting)
- A tudat fogalmáról. Filozófia-történeti és ismerettani tanulmány. Győr, 1912. (=From the concept of the consciousness. Philosophy story and knowledge doctrine study.)
- A tudati adottság filozófiája. Budapest, 1922. (=The philosophy of the consciousness conditions.)
- Aquinói Szent Tamás filozófiája. Budapest. 1923. (=St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophy.)
- Tér és térszemlélet. Pécs, 1925. (=Space and space-perception.)
- A pszichológia alapvetése. Pécs, 1926. (The establishment of the psychology.)
- Az indukció filozófiája. Pécs, 1927. (=The philosophy of the induction.)
- A lélektan mai állása. Budapest, 1928. (=The today's position of the psychology.)
- Intelligencia (értelem). [Lexikon szócikk.] In Magyar pedagógiai lexikon I. köt. – Bp.: Révai, 1933. 914-915. hasáb. (=Intelligence (sense). [Encyclopaedia dictionary entry.] In Hungarian pedagogic encyclopaedia)
- Tehetség, tehetségesség. [Lexikon szócikk.] In: Magyar pedagógiai lexikon II. köt. – Bp. : Révai, 1934. 784-785. hasáb. (=Talent, talented. [Encyclopaedia dictionary entry.] In: Hungarian pedagogic encyclopaedia.)
- Tehetségesek iskolái. [Lexikon szócikk.] = Magyar pedagógiai lexikon II. köt. – Bp. : Révai, 1934. 785-786. hasáb. (The schools of talented ones. [=Encyclopaedia dictionary entry.] = Hungarian pedagogic encyclopaedia.)
- A cselekvő iskola lélektani alapja. A Cselekvés Iskolája, Szeged, 3. évf. (1934–35) 101. o. (=The psychological basis of the acting school. The school of the act.)
- A kiválasztás és értelmességvizsgálat újabb kérdése. Szeged, 1936. (=The newer question of the selection and an intelligence examination.)
- Bevezetés a neveléslélektanba. Budapest, 1937. (=Introduction into the educational psychology.)
- A nevelés néhány alapelve. Kecskemét, 1939. (=Some basic principles of the upbringing.)
- Védekező magatartások a gyermekkorban. A Cselekvés Iskolája, Szeged, 1939-40. (=Defensive behaviours in the childhood. )
- Fejezetek a serdülés és ifjúkor lélektanából : Lényegszemlélet : Második közlemény. A Cselekvés iskolája, Szeged, [Ablaka ny.] 9. tanév 1940-41. 1-4. sz. (=Chapters from the psychology of the puberty and youth : Essence view : The second is communication. The school of the act.)
- A gyermek testi és lelki fejlődése. Budapest, 1942. (=The child bodily and his spiritual growth.)
- A lelki élet zavarai. Budapest, 1943. (=The disturbances of the spiritual life.)
- Válogatott pedagógiai tanulmányok. Szerző: Makarenko. Ford Szöllősy Klára. Szerk. és az előszót írta Várkonyi H. Dezső egyetemi tanár. Budapest : Új Magyar Könyvkiadó N. V., 1948. pp. 322 (változatlan utánnyomás 1949, 1950.) (=Chosen pedagogic studies.)
- Ranschburg Pál és a magyar gyógypedagógia. Gyógypedagógia, 1960. (=Pál Ranschburg and the Hungarian remedial education. Remedial education.)
- Felfogás és absztrakció. In: Tanítóképző Intézetek Tudományos Közleményei. 6. Debrecen, 1969. (=Notion and abstraction.)
- Naplótöredékek. Budapest, 1973. (=Diary fractions.)
Literature ( selecting)
- Magyar Irodalmi lexikon. 3. köt. Budapest, 1965. (=Hungarian literary encyclopaedia.)
- Bardócz András: Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső tudományos közleményeinek és kéziratainak bibliográfiája. Budapest, Magyar Padagógiai Társaság, 1979. 38 p. (=András Bardócz: Dezső Hildebrand Várkonyi’s bibliography of scientific communications and his manuscripts.)
- Szántó Károly: Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső életútja és munkássága. Pedagógiai Szemle, 1984. (=Károly Szántó: Dezső Hildebrand Várkonyi’s path of life and his working class.
- Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső emlékkötet / szerk. Zakar András. Szeged, 1988. (Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József Nominatae. Sectio Paedagogica et Psychologica, 0324-7260 ; 30.) (=Dezső Hildebrand Várkonyi’s memory volume)
Social membership
- Hungarian Pedagogic Company
- Hungarian Psychological Company (president, 1940–1947)
- Paedology company (co-chairman)