Hungarian Culture Day January 22, 1989 we have been celebrating the Hungarian Culture Day in memory of the manuscript witnessing that Ferenc Kölcsey finished the Anthem on this day in 1823.

Ferenc Kölcsey, who lived in Szatmárcseke from 1815, wrote the greatest masterpiece of his patriotic poetry, Hymnus, in January 1823, at the time of the intensification of the constitutional measures of the Vienna court. The poem was first published in 1829 in Károly Kisfaludy's Aurora, a manuscript still from the stormy centuries of the Hungarian people, without a subtitle, but published in 1832 in the first volume of Kölcsey's works, already published by the author.

The manuscript package containing the Hymnus disappeared in the late 1830s

Hungarian Culture Day January 22

Ferenc Kölcsey wrote his poems on separate pages and collected his manuscript packs. The manuscript package containing Hymnus disappeared at the end of the 1830s, and after more than a hundred years of incubation, it became the property of the National Széchényi Library in 1946, and the manuscript damaged by the Hymnus ink mill is on two pages.

In 1844, a competition was announced for the composition of the Anthem, which was won by Ferenc Erkel, conductor of the Pest National Theater. His career was premiered on July 2, 1844 at the National Theater under the direction of the composer. On August 10, 1844, he was first sung in public at the Óbuda Shipyard when the Széchenyi Steamboat was launched, and on August 20, 1848, it was first performed at an official state ceremony. At that time, during the festive occasions, they sang alternately or together with the Word, during the period of repression following the suppression of the War of Independence, and then, by consensus,
the Hymn became the national prayer of the Hungarians.

Only the XXXI of 1989, which fundamentally amended the anthem constitution of 1949, officially formulated the anthem. was included in our national emblems. Article I of the Fundamental Law, which entered into force on 1 January 2012, also states: "The Hungarian national anthem by Ferenc Kölcsey with the music of Ferenc Erkel."

The idea of ​​commemorating the Day of Hungarian Culture was raised in 1985 by pianist Árpád Fasang Jr.. According to him, this day is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the millennial heritage and to be proud of, because this nation has given much to the culture of Europe, the world. This heritage provides maintenance, management, and help solve today's problems.

The National Council of the Patriotic People's Front decided on December 29, 1988, to hold the Day of Hungarian Culture, and the events were first held in January 1989.

Here in Hungary and abroad, Hungarian cultural values ​​are commemorated

On the occasion of the celebration, Hungarians in Hungary, across borders and around the world, will commemorate Hungarian cultural values. They hold exhibitions and concerts, book presentations, literary evenings and theater performances. Today, in the spirit of the Year of National Coherence, events abroad are of the utmost importance.

In connection with this day, professional awards related to Hungarian culture and, since 1993, to educational and pedagogical work, including the Márai Sándor Prize, the public education professional awards - the Csokonai Vitéz Mihály Creator Award, the Public Education Quality Award and Certified Public Education Institution - the Municipality of Hódmezővásárhely founded the Ferenc Bessenyei Art Prize, the Kölcsey Memorial Plaque, the title of Knight of Culture of the Foundation for the Culture of Villages, and the Transdanubian Association of Hungarian Democrats founded in Cluj-Napoca.