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Sabre fencer
I was born in Budapest. I was a two-time Olympic champion sabre fencer and sports journalist, known for my refined technique and regarded as an iconic figure in Hungarian sport.
Birth name
Born
1904-12-14, Budapest
Deceased
1943-01-20, Davidovka
Profession
Sabre fencer
Awards
He was born to merchant Fülöp Petschauer and Ilona Júlia Weisz in the Hild House at 36 Király Street. Between 1923 and 1925, he studied law. From 1925 to 1932, he worked as a bank clerk.
He was a member of the gold medal-winning Hungarian sabre team at both the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Individually, he won silver in Amsterdam and finished fifth in Los Angeles. At the European Championships, he won team gold in 1930 (Liège) and 1931 (Vienna). Individually, he earned silver medals in 1926 (Budapest) and 1930 (Liège), and bronze medals in 1925 (Oostende), 1929 (Naples), and 1931 (Vienna).
After retiring from competition, he worked as a journalist from 1933, primarily writing sports articles for Pesti Napló and Az Est, where he had his own column titled "Let’s Speak Honestly." He also occasionally contributed to Színházi Élet. He was a popular figure in interwar Budapest and also appeared as an actor and master of ceremonies.
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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