A Hungarian name

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Liv Bliss wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers -- Can anyone help me with the name of the chairman of 
> the All-Hungary Committee for Physical Culture and Sport in the 1950s?
> 
> The transliteration given in the Russian text I'm working on is Х. Дьюла 
> (sometimes Х. Дьюлла) [Kh. D'yula or D'yulla]. The latter element could be 
> Gyula, but the X./Kh. has me baffled. One Soviet source renders it as Хеди 
> (Khedi), but I couldn't confirm to my satisfaction that this really is the guy's 
> name.
> 
> I'm particularly miffed because he was also head of the Hungarian delegation 
> to the epoch-making 1956 Melbourne Olympics, which should be a great help 
> to me. But still I'm coming up dry.

I think the problem is that Hungarian names are backwards (like Chinese 
ones), and your source misinterpreted Horn Gyula's first name as his last.

-- 
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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