A magánélet titkai és a napló (Nők, szerelem, házasság Kállay Béni életében)
The Secrets of Private Life and the Diary. Women, Love and the Diary in Béni Kállay’s Life

Summary/Abstract: Neither Béni Kállay (Pest, 1839 – Vienna, 1903) nor the diary he kept in Belgrade (1868- 1875) are unknown for historians. This study is a methodological attempt to understand one’s personality through his diary and to reveal deeper socio- and mentality historical re-lations on the basis of certain characteristics of this personality. The paper discusses three main topics: on the one hand, it uses the sentiment approach to analyse Kállay Béni’s pas-sionate relationship with the famous opera singer Marie Rabatinsky and the story of their break-up; on the other hand, it examines, from the aspects of gender history and diplomat-ic information gathering, the role of diplomats’ and politicians’ wives during Kállay’s years as the Hungarian consul in Belgrade; and finally, it surveys the theories of this individua-listic person on marriage using the motifs he registered in the diary he kept during his marriage with Countess Vilma Bethlen.

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