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2. Mehra J (ed) (2001) The collected works of Eugene P. Wigner, volume VII: historical and biographical reflections and syntheses. Springer, Berlin, p 313
3. Polanyi M (1929) Pesti Futár, pp 37–38 (English translation from the Hungarian by IH). Ferenc Tangl (1866–1917) was a professor of medicine at Budapest University. Ignác Pfeifer (1867–1941) was a chemical engineer and as professor was charge of the chemistry institute of the Budapest Technical University. Pfeifer was dismissed under Horthy and moved to private industry, and in the late 1930s, he lost his employment due to anti-Jewish legislation. István Széchenyi (1791–1860) was a Hungarian aristocrat who had innovative ideas to move the feudalistic Hungary, under the Habsburgs’ rule, onto a path of progress. He and a group of fellow aristocrats initiated the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Széchenyi offered one year income of his estate in support of this initiative. Ferenc Kazinczy (1759–1831) was a writer and poet who is most remembered by his activities in the reform of the Hungarian language. The Hungarian language replaced Latin as the official language of Hungary in 1844
4. The last paragraph demonstrates Polanyi’s optimism that Hungary will one day change and that the democratic way of life in Germany will one day become the way of life in Hungary as well. We now know that Polanyi’s anticipation was tragically wrong and instead of what he had hoped for, in a few years’ time, Hitler and the Nazis took over Germany
5. Polanyi M (1958) Personal knowledge towards a post-critical philosophy. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago