Hungarian Uruguayans

Hungarian Uruguayans (Hungarian: Uruguayi magyarok) are people born in Hungary who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Hungarian descent.

Hungarian Uruguayans
uruguayi magyarok
Hungary Uruguay
Hungarian composer Debály Ferenc József (Francisco José Debali), author of the music of the National Anthem of Uruguay
Total population
3,000[1]
Languages
Uruguayan Spanish, Hungarian
Religion
Christianity (mostly Roman Catholic and Protestant), Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Hungarian people, Hungarian diaspora

Overview

Hungarian Uruguayans are a local ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary.[2]

In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in Uruguay[3] They even had some influence within the Communist Party of Uruguay.[3]

In 1936, Hungarian migrants established the Hungarian Home of Uruguay (Hungarian: Uruguayi Magyar Otthon), an ethnic association.[4]

There is also a small Jewish-Hungarian community,[5] they established their own association in the 1920s,[6] which in turn sent their representative to the Uruguayan Central Israeli Committee.[7]

There is an immigrant branch of the Batthyány noble family.[8][9]

Notable Hungarians in Uruguay
Past
Present

See also

References
  1. "A diaszpóra tudományos megközelítése". 3 July 2015.
  2. Opportunities for Hungarian-Uruguayan relations (in Hungarian)
  3. Hungarian workers in Latin America (in Spanish)
  4. Uruguayi Magyar Otthon (in Hungarian)
  5. Christoph Marx; Christine Hatzky; Waltraud Kokot; Hauke Dorsch (2004). Periplus 2004: Jahrbuch für Aussereuropäische geschichte. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8258-7820-7.
  6. Hungarian Israeli Community of Uruguay Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  7. "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  8. The history of the Batthyány family (in Hungarian)
  9. "An interview to Dr. Carlos Batthyány" (in Spanish). Montevideo: Galería. 7 September 2021.
  10. Hungarians in Latin America (in Hungarian)


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