The Vata pagan uprising was a Hungarian rebellion which in 1046 brought about the overthrow of King Peter Urseolo, the martyrdom of St. Gellért and the reinstatement of the Árpád dynasty on the Hungarian throne.
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As András and Levente's men moved towards Pest, the bishops Gellért (Ital. Gerard), Besztrik (Hung. Beszteréd, Slovak Bystrík) Buldi (Hung. Bőd) and Beneta gathered to greet them.
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La Fontaine in France; Gay and Dodsley in England; Gellert, Lessing and Hagedorn in Germany; Tomas de Iriarte in Spain, and Krylov in Russia, are leading modern writers of apologues.
For a further account of Gellert's life and work see lives by J.A. Cramer (Leipzig, 1774), H. Döring (Greiz, 1833), and H.O. Nietschmann (2nd ed., Halle, 1901); also Gellerts Tagebuch aus dem Jahre 1761 (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1863) and Gellert's Briefwechsel mit Demoiselle Lucius (Leipzig, 1823).
The famous Hotel Gellért and the Gellért Baths can be found in Gellért Square at the foot of the hill, next to Liberty Bridge.
In 1932, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, feeling uncomfortable about Gellert’s public persona and politics, petitioned to have Gellert’s work removed from its collection.
Candia also wrote Toledot Mosheh (The Generation of Moses), a dramatic poem in two acts based on the life of Moses, and supplemented by other poems, original, or translated from Schiller's Die Bürgschaft, and from Gellert (Warsaw, 1829).
His sculptures "St Gellért" and "Frater Julianus" were erected at the Fishermen's Bastion in Budapest in 1937, and at the Coronation of St Stephen in Esztergom in 1938.
controversy by writing to Art Monthly in October 1998 and claiming that Kozyra's "Bath house" and artist Tacita Dean's 1998 "Gellert" were of the same subject: the most famous bath house in Budapest.
Bruce Conforth of the University of Michigan produced these two recordings and has completed a book African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story
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Lawrence Gellert, born September 14, 1898 in Budapest, Hungary, died 1979 (Gellert disappeared in 1979, his death date is unknown), was a music collector who in the 1920s and 1930s documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.
Gellért was later canonized for his martyrdom and the hill from which he had been thrown was renamed Gellért Hill.