Dérimódi történet/The Déri Family Tales

https://dehir.hu/kultura/derimodi-tortenet-van-valami-megmagyarazhatatlan/2026/10/19/

https://mediaklikk.hu/audio/kossuth-radio/2026/09/15/14-30/kultura/szoda-pezsgo-kultura/

“I have been studying the history of the founder of Déri Museum and his family for years with support from Collegium Hungaricum, Klebelsberg and and OeAD scholarships. 

Starting in Vienna and Baja, the six members of the family had an incredible life and career. 

Frigyes Déri (1852-1924) was one of the leading silk traders of Austria-Hungary, his products dictating the fashion trends of ties for a long time. He was co-founder of the Vienna based educational society Uránia, and also a founding member of Künstlerhaus, patron of fine arts. He donated his collection of cultural history to the Hungarian state on the condition that a museum would be built in Debrecen to house them. 

Miksa Déri (1854-1938) wan an inventor. In 1883, together with Károly Zipernowsky, they created the self-excited alternating-current generator. Later, in 1885, with Ottó Bláthy, they patented the closed iron core transformer.

Kálmán Déri (1859-1940) was an artist who lived in Munich from1884, but he was also present in the Hungarian artistic scene as well. 

György Déri (1863-1946) was a soldier who would go on to create an ethnographical collection of the Carpathian Basin that he donated to Debrecen in 1939. This made Déri Museum to have the second largest such collection in Hungary. 

Julianna Déry (1864-1899) was a drama writer. Her career was helped greatly by the Vienna based Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian writer and editor. Between 1890-93, she lived in Paris and had a strong relationship with the founder of Nouvelle Revue. She moved to Munich in 1893 and had a friend group from the authors around the Die Gesellschaft periodical. She was founding member of Intimes Theater, a group rebelling against big, spectacle-based theatre. 

Dezső Déry (1865-1942) lived in the US, as one of the largest silk traders of the world. He created an enormous art collection (from Dürer to Munkácsy) in his house in Allentown, which he had to sell in 1923. Today, there is a plaque commemorating his achievements as a trader, and memorial walks are organized in his 25000 m² house.

Check out the Youtube, Instragam, Facebook and TikTok pages of Déri Museum for a more detailed history of the members of the Déri family.”

Lajos Lakner, PhD, Project Lead, Déri Museum

Project MEC_N 155132 is implemented with support from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of the Ministry of Science and Technology, under the funding program with the code MEC_N_26 (Scientific Patronage).

Date: 13.10.2026.

Bejegyzés ideje: 2026. 10. 13.