- CALG 1/01 Folder : Press, Europe [French Papers] 1942-1947
- CALG 1/02 Folder : Dr. A.L. Gabriel, Press [Hungarian] 1947-1952
Short articles in various Hungarian-language papers from America, Canada, or Hungary having to do with:
1. ALG giving speeches and participating in festivals and ceremonies organized by the Catholic Hungarian community in Toronto, giving a course of lectures on Hungarian history and folk-art in Toronto, University of Ottawa, and Chicago; his lectures and interviews about the first Hungarian in Newfoundland, Canada; his treatise in Analecta Praemonstratensia; his speech in front of three thousand Hungarians in Delhi, Southern Ontario; his inaugural prayer at the Hungarian Charity Society's Social Evening; delivering keynote speeches at the Danube Institute's first two-day Congress in Cleveland, Ohio; his speech at the Hungarian cultural event at Windsor about Hungarian art motifs and their philosophical background.
2. News about ALG conducting lecture series at the University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute on the history of the University of Paris and at the University of Montreal on the intellectual life in medieval Paris; various lectures at Indiana University, Bloomington, in Cincinnati at the Hotel Alms, and in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library where he met Howard Goodhart, Fritz Kreisler, and Cardinal Spellman among others; graduation speeches at Nazareth College in Louisville and Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh.
3. Articles about ALG's appointment as director of the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute in 1952 by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. (the only Medieval Institute in the country in those days) and his library and manuscript research project at Harvard.
4. Invitations from Etienne Gilson, the French Congressman and historian of philosophy; book exhibition at Notre Dame organized by ALG; his discourse on the Hungarian dean at the University of Paris in the 15th century; ALG's publicity in Rome reflected in several articles in the Osservatore Romano.
5. ALG's new book "English Scholars in Paris"; his Hungarian nuptial ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, wedding Countess Andrássy Erzsébet and Olgyay Aladár, professor at Notre Dame; his one-year research award from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, article run by the New York Times (including a photo of ALG); his acquisition of old Hungarian material, including some rare books dated before the battle of Mohács of 1526.
6. ALG's article appearing in Ecclesia (official magazine of the Vatican); article by ALG on the spirituality of the most important Hungarian Saint, St. Marguerite of Hungary, and about King St. László from 1077; his trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to give invited talks at the university and in front of the local Hungarian Community.
- CALG 1/03 Folder : Dr. Gabriel's Scrapbooks 1947-1952
- CALG 1/04 Folder : General Scrapbook 1947-1959
- CALG 1/04.01 Document : Newspaper article about ALG lecturing at Fordham University, New York
Symposium: "Conversion of the Central-European countries to Christianity". In his speech titled "The first hundred years of Hungarian Christianity" ALG traces the historical origins of Hungarian Christianity to relations with Byzantium and analyzes the importance of Hungarian intellectual trends at several Western European universities. Hungarian
- CALG 1/04.02 Document : ALG's article on Hungarian students studying in Paris
On the early ties and close connections between the Anglo-Saxon and Hungarian scholars. ALG analyzes the archbishops and bishops teaching or studying ecclesiastical law at European universities of the middle ages. Many Hungarian pilgrims wandered to Ireland to visit St. Patrick's purgatory, writes ALG. Hungarian
- CALG 1/04.03 Document : Interview with ALG in München, Germany 1959/0814
Appeared in the local Hungarian newspaper: ALG speaks about his engagement at various European universities, such as his speech at the Luxemburg International University, where ALG is a co-founder and a joint regent. He also talks about his scientific research and the unique and rare historical documents he is getting in at Notre Dame for research purposes that also have Hungarian relevance. His long-term goal, he says, is to establish at Notre Dame a Hungarian Cultural Institute. For that, he is collecting and codifying documents to delineate the Hungarian past and cultural history for those who are not familiar with it. Hungarian
- CALG 1/04.04 Document : Article, written by Dr. Ecsődi János in the South American Hungarian Press
On ALG's new monograph entitled "Martin de Bereck, receptor, proctor, and rector at the University of Paris". By using rich and colorful book documentation, as he always does, ALG shows that Martin de Bereck was a native of Hungary; with his master of arts education coupled with his administrative talents, he was a very successful rector at the University of Paris for two consecutive "lustrums". Hungarian
- CALG 1/04.05 Document : Article about ALG's research on the Hungarian theologian of the Renaissance era, Sándor
By Angyal Endre in "Our Reputation in the World". Hungarian
- CALG 1/04.06 Document : Short article about ALG
He received the most distinguished prize of the French Academy for his scholarship and for his latest book, Student Life in Medieval Paris. Hungarian
- CALG 1/05 Folder : Gabriel Research and Publication 1947-1961
- CALG 1/05.01 Document : ALG at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton
In the "Western Observer" a short paragraph reporting on two New York Times articles about ALG's appointment at Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton in 1950. It also mentions his biography and a list of publications. Hungarian
- CALG 1/05.02 Document : Hungarian articles
Having to do with: ALG's speech at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York; ALG's speech in Duluth, College of St. Scholastica's annual meeting; ALG's speeches in Caracas, Venezuela, commissioned by the University of Notre Dame, his meeting with the secretary of state of Venezuela and with the local Hungarian emigrants there; Notre Dame's Medieval Institute, through ALG, is inviting applications for a graduate student scholarship that is funding a student interested in doing research on Medieval Studies; ALG reporting on Miss Meta Harrsen's, a librarian at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, new discovery of the Hungarian Legendarium, a miniature about Hungarian Saints of the 14th century; it also mentions the Library of Congress' new edition of the counterpart of a 14th century Hungarian bible, which is now the institute's numer one script; ALG's article on Medieval Hungarian Alchemists coming out in the Vatican's "Ecclesia"; ALG, being the president of the first Hungarian Literary Work Award Commission that invites Hungarian writers, living in emigration, to send in their novels from all over the world; as the president of this Commission, ALG's uplifting and successful speeches at the opening and closing festivities in Cleveland where, after presenting the winners of the prize, he talked about the unique Hungarian existentialism helping today's Hungarians living in exile; ALG, who is considered by his fellow Hungarian emigrants as the ambassador of the Hungarian literary world, presiding in Cleveland.
- CALG 1/06 Folder : [Newspaper Clippings and Press] 1953-1964
- CALG 1/06.01 Document : Press / Publicity
Hungarian reports appearing in various newspapers having to do with ALG's honors, promotions, merits, talks, publications, hits, "Szemle" (the Hungarian-emigrants' monthly magazine), research, banquets in honor of ALG, Ambrosiana project in Milan, Italy, keynote speeches while touring at international conferences and universities around Europe and Canada, speeches in South-America, excerpts from the letter written by Cardinal Eugene Trisserant to Rev. Theodore M. Hesbourgh, C.S.C..
- CALG 1/06.02 Document : ALG's articles
On Szabó János, the Pope's prelate; King St. Stephen, saint and hero of Hungarians; St. Imre, patron saint of Hungarian Youth; the difference between the materialist and the Christian world view and values.
- CALG 1/07 Folder : [Press] 1958-1972
- CALG 1/07.01 Document : Information on ALG's new study on "Vinzenz von Beauvais" 1970/02
In the February issue of "Hungarian History Observer" (1970). It presents Vincent of Beauvais, a Hungarian blackfriar, who had a great influence in baronial education of the French royal family. Hungarian
- CALG 1/07.02 Title : "An educator from the middle ages"
Summarizes ALG's new monograph "The Educational Ideas of Vincent of Beauvais" and praises the author for documenting the moral values of that time that have been the basis of educating the plutocracy. Moreover it draws a parallel and finds similarities with the notions of educating a modern man. Hungarian
- CALG 1/08 Folder : General Scrapbook 1960-1964
- CALG 1/08.01 Document : "Symposium on the history of universities" which took place at Cracow, Poland, on May 6, 1964. Article written by Klaniczay Tibor. The article mentions ALG who gave a very interesting talk on the iconography of medieval universities. The lecture revealed many novelties particularly in relation to Hungarian cultural values of that time (like a miniature from Vienna University picturing the widely known myth about the Hungarian King St. László saving a girl from being robbed by neighboring mobs). Hungarian
- CALG 1/08.02 Document : Article in the "Catholic Hungarians Sunday" (Youngstown)
About ALG having been elected a Corresponding Fellow of France's exclusive Academy (1963). Hungarian
- CALG 1/08.03 Document : "Szemle" reporting on ALG's election into the French Academy in 1963
ALG's membership is great news to all Hungarians living in emigration who, by common consent, consider ALG as their benefactor giving justice to Hungarian history abroad. Hungarian
- CALG 1/08.04 Document : Article in "Hungaria"
About ALG giving an invited talk at the World Congress of Historians at Stockholm, Sweden (1960). Hungarian
- CALG 1/09 Folder : General Scrapbook 1965-1973
Newspaper clippings from Hungarian papers having to do with: ALG's election to be president of the American Catholic Historical Association as of January 1st, 1973, followed by a short biography; his inaugural presentation taking place at the General Assembly of 1973 in San Francisco; ALG's four invited talks during the summer of 1972 at the universities of Paris, France, and Köln, Saarbrücken, and München, Germany, on the history of European universities; ALG's election as a corresponding fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1971; ALG's, among others', gift to Hungary's largest Library, the Széchényi Public Library in Budapest, acquisition department, of a couple of his medieval monographs related to Hungary; ALG's election as a vice-president of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation; ALG's receiving the insignia of Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, from Dr. Luigi Lauriolia, Italian Consul General, in 1970; Book review by István Eszterhas on ALG's new book "The Medieval Universities of Pécs and Pozsony" in Catholic Hungarians' Sunday, says that ALG's book is a classic, a very well documented and timely Hungarian monograph; ALG's addressing Hungarians in New York at the festive occasion of St. Stephen's millenium commemoration; his talk entitled "King St. Stephen: the law-maker and state-builder"; ALG's new book "Garlandia", a collection of medieval studies and memoirs with many Hungarian bearings; Seven of ALG's students honoring him and presenting ALG a volume entitled "Studium Generale", in Catholic Review, 1968; ALG's receiving his honorary degree from the Ambrosian Library, Milan, Italy, in 1968; it is the first honorary degree congregation that this world-famous institution has initiated; ALG's talk in New York on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Hungarian university education, together with Dr. Bakó Elemér, Library of Congress librarian, 1968, report by Békés Elemér; ALG receiving the Gold Medal of Árpád that was given to few eminent Hungarian thinkers living in emigration -- in front of a cheering and applauding crowd -- and meanwhile his unanimous election as first president of the new Árpád Academy, in Cleveland, Ohio, report in "Brotherhood", 1966; ALG's election as a full-member of the American Medieval Academy in 1966.
- CALG 1/10 Folder : Reviews. The Mediaeval Universities of Pecs and Pozsony 1969-1973
- CALG 1/10.01 Document : Review in Catholic Hungarians' Sunday, by István Eszterhas 1970
Gives a brief summary of this very well documented and timely Hungarian monograph: it is a classic.
- CALG 1/10.02 Document : Review by Bogyay Tamás, "Two ancient Hungarian Universities"
Well documented contents, magnificient illustrations and prints. All Hungarians should read this book.
- CALG 1/10.03 Document : Review in News from Hungary 1969
Same as above.
- CALG 2/01 Folder : Reviews. Skara House at the Mediaeval University of Paris 1961-1973
- CALG 2/01.01 Document : Book review 1961
On ALG's newest book on the Swedish students' life in Paris during Medieval times. The Skara house is named after Skara diocese between Göteborg and Stockholm where most Catholic Swedish students originated from. The review is followed by ALG's short biography. Hungarian
- CALG 2/01.02 Document : Book review by Pálinkás László 1962
Completes ALG's argument on Swedish-French Medieval relations saying that Medieval international relations and also the life of different European nations were quite peaceful because they were driven by Christian ideas that are universal. In contrast, today's driving force behind individuals' and nation's actions, rationalism, inadvertently leads to unnecessary conflicts among people. Hungarian
- CALG 2/01.03 Document : Árpád Goldmedal
ALG's book has won first prize, the Árpád Goldmedal, at the Second Hungarian Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio; ALG accepted at the meeting's festive banquet. Hungarian
- CALG 2/01.04 Document : Review, "Hungarian scholar of the Medieval Historical Studies" 1962
Summarizes ALG's biography and his new book Swedish-French scholastic relations. Hungarian
- CALG 2/02 Folder : Reviews. Student Life in Ave Maria College 1956-1968
- CALG 2/02.01 Document : Summary of Ave Maria College in Paris
Review run by the South American Hungarian Press gives a short summary of ALG's new book on the Ave Maria College in Paris and applauds the book for its detailed and timely account on Christian education and values starting as early as 1327. The book is a nice admixture to a recent movement concerned with the rehabilitation of Christian values and Medieval civilization (1956). Hungarian
- CALG 2/02.02 Document : Review on ALG's book, "No Full European Life Without Hungary"
Praises ALG as being the eminent scholar of the generation of Hungarian literati who endured hard times after World War II. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03 Folder : General Scrapbook 1974-1976
- CALG 2/03.01 Document : Newspaper clippings having re ALG's scholarly distinctions.
- CALG 2/03.02 Title : "Encounters", by Magyar Ferenc
Portrays Hungarian life in South Bend: the welcoming festivities surrounding the brief visit to South Bend of Lékai László's, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary; the second largest Hungarian book collection, outside Hungary, at the University of Notre Dame carefully collected by ALG; the standing toast at the Budapest restaurant given by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Crowley. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03.03 Document : Short article that mentions ALG's feature article in a newspaper from Madrid 1976
The theme of the article, run 20 years earlier, was the medieval Hungarian-Spanish nexus enforced by two royal marriages. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03.04 Document : Article on ALG's aid to French prisoners of war
ALG gave shelter in his French College of Gödöllő to those who fled the Nazi camps during World War II. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03.05 Document : Report on Commencement Speech 1976
As a guest of Dr. Leslie S. Domonkos, ALG visited Youngstown University where he was the main speaker for the university's commencement ceremony. He spoke about the legacy of ideas as being a fine balance between the conservatism of the old generation and the progressivism of the new. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03.06 Document : Article on Cardinal Mindszenty commemoration 1975
Report on the commemoration of Mindszenty József, Primate and Cardinal Dean of Hungary, in San Francisco, on 22 August 1975, on St. Stephen's National Holiday, proclaimed as Hungarian Day by the mayor of the city. ALG as guest participated in the Mass. Hungarian
- CALG 2/03.07 Document : Report on ALG receiving the "George Washington Award" from the Hungarian Studies Foundation
Mentions ALG's ongoing friendship with his former schoolmate and the great Hungarian writer, Sándor Márai. Hungarian
- CALG 2/04 Folder : Book Reviews of the Texts and Studies in Mediaeval Education. Editors A. L. Gabriel and J.N. Garvin 1955-1976
- CALG 2/05 Folder : Reviews. Liber Receptorum 1964-1969
- CALG 2/06 Folder : Reviews. Garlandia: Studies in the History of the Mediaeval University 1969-1973
- CALG 2/06.01 Document : Hungarian Historical Review Article 1970
Highlighting two of ALG's rich illustrations drawn from Garlandia, his newest book. One is the horoscope cast at the founding of the University of Pozsony; the other shows the Hungarian Medieval University's Coats-of-Arms. Hungarian
- CALG 2/07 Folder : Short Articles and Book Reviews on Dr. A. L. Gabriel's Publications 1925-1972
- CALG 2/07.01 Document : Article summarizing ALG's talk in Toronto, "Anglo-Saxon and Hungarian Cultural Relations During the Middle Ages"
At the end of his talk, ALG said that sadly today St. Stephen's Admonishion in particular and Christian Humanism in general are disregarded, and thus Hungarians are not free to visit great Western European institutions any more. Hungarian
- CALG 2/07.02 Document : ALG reviews a facsimile edition of a series of old Hungarian monuments and rare manuscripts
ALG gives a detailed historical account of the second volume in this series, the so called "Apor-kodex", which is a book of psalms from the Middle Ages, handwritten in Transylvania, and bestowed upon the baron Apor family by Premontre nuns. However, in contrast to the publisher, ALG claims that the psalter originates from a monastery in Transylvania from earlier times and not from the monastery built for the Premontre Nuns in Budapest. Hungarian
- CALG 2/07.03 Document : Article on Prayer for Christian Unity 1947
About a one-week common prayer in France for the unity of all Christian faiths (in New Man). Hungarian
- CALG 2/07.04 Document : ALG's article in New Man, "Catholicism's fight in a good quarrel for the masses" 1946/1013
In the first part ALG remembers the day in September 1939 when the war breaks out in Paris and he has to say goodbye to his priest friends. Just before leaving Paris, ALG interviews Abbé D., who works in the heavy industry in one of Paris's many suburbs. ALG visits him in the factory to find out that, while doing just as hard manual labor as the other workers, his friend is there to fulfill the role of an apostle. Abbé D., like many other priests during World War II in France, wants to help the poor by closing the chasm between the priest, as a person, and the workers' society. The same idea is enforced by the French seminaries as well when they require their pupils to go out and work in a factory doing industrial labor for half a year. Hungarian
- CALG 2/07.05 Document : Short article mentioning ALG's name and the high school he attends
ALG has handed in the correct solution of two challenging geometry problems to the Mathematical Papers for High-schoolers. Hungarian
- CALG 2/08 Folder : Skara House at the Mediaeval University of Paris 1961-1965
- CALG 2/08.01 Document : Review of ALG's book on the Swedish students' life in Paris during Medieval times 1961
The Skara house is named after Skara diocese between Göteborg and Stockholm from which most Catholic Swedish students came. The review is followed by ALG's short biography. Hungarian
- CALG 2/08.02 Document : Review by Pálinkás László 1962
Completes ALG's argument on Swedish-French Medieval relations saying that Medieval international relations and also the life of different European nations were quite peaceful because they were driven by Christian ideas that are universal. In contrast, today's driving force behind individuals' and nation's actions, rationalism, inadvertently leads to unnecessary conflicts among people. Hungarian
- CALG 2/08.03 Document : Review, "Hungarian scholar of the Medieval Historical Studies" 1962
Summarizes ALG's biography and his new book Swedish-French scholastic relations. Hungarian
- CALG 2/08.04 Document : Árpád Goldmedal
ALG's book has won first prize, the Árpád Goldmedal, at the Second Hungarian Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio; ALG accepted at the meeting's festive banquet. Hungarian
- CALG 2/09 Folder : Second [Copies of Articles Already in Scrapbooks] 1956-1957
- CALG 2/10 Folder : [Conference Poster]
- CALG 2/11 Folder : Anecdote of the Inconsistent Scholar (Booklet of A. L. Gabriel) 1959
- CALG 2/12 Folder : President's Copies. Ave Maria Book Reviews 1956-1963
- CALG 2/12.01 Document : Review run by the South-American Hungarian Press 1956
Gives a short summary of ALG's new book on the Ave Maria College in Paris and applauds the book for its detailed and timely account on Christian education and values starting as early as 1327. The book is a nice admixture to a recent movement concerned with the rehabilitation of Christian values and Medieval civilization. Hungarian
- CALG 2/12.02 Document : Review on ALG's book entitled "No Full European Life Without Hungary"
Praises ALG as being the eminent scholar of the generation of Hungarian literati who endured hard times during the period after World War II. Hungarian
- CALG 2/13 Folder : Ave Maria College (Reviews) 1955-1961
- CALG 2/13.01 Document : Review run by the South-American Hungarian Press 1956
Gives a short summary of ALG's new book on the Ave Maria College in Paris and applauds the book for its detailed and timely account on Christian education and values starting as early as 1327. The book is a nice admixture to a recent movement concerned with the rehabilitation of Christian values and Medieval civilization. Hungarian
- CALG 2/13.02 Document : Lajti István to ALG 1956/0625
István sends the plans for the proposed ceremony in France. But he would like to talk to ALG by phone once more before he goes to visit the ambassador. Mr. Vimont from the embassy thinks that the presentation of the money is not a good idea: the embassy needs an official letter from the Academy instead. So István will call ALG to talk about the details and right after that he will get in contact with the first counselor to discuss ALG's reception and the meeting with the ambassador. Hungarian
- CALG 2/14 Folder : Ave Maria College (Book) 1955-1958
- CALG 2/14.01 Letter : Editor of Gazeta Hungara to ALG 1956/0518
The editor thinks that there has been a misunderstanding in ALG's last letter sent early this year. The paper has not yet received ALG's new volume: therefore they could not yet run a detailed review of it. Still, he asks ALG if he would have it sent again or else send an already published review. The editor has always appreciated ALG's work and tremendous scholarly research and would be happy to write an article on ALG's new book. Hungarian
- CALG 2/14.02 Letter : Kósa János to ALG 1956/0307
János begs pardon for his delay in congratulating ALG for his new book. He has ordered it, but the college where he teaches has not yet received a copy. Should it arrive soon, János is to put it on the reading list for his History of Medieval Europe class. Hungarian
- CALG 2/14.03 Letter : Fábián Béla to ALG 1956/0123
Béla has sent each a copy of ALG's new book to the editors of the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. He also enclosed a few lines of recommendation. As a graduate from Kassa Premontre Gymnazium, Béla will be personally at the disposal of ALG. Hungarian
- CALG 2/14.04 Letter : Dömöny Esther to ALG 1956/0202
On behalf of Fábián Béla, Esther writes this letter to inform ALG that Béla has talked to the editor of the "New Leader". They would be happy to review ALG's book. Hungarian
- CALG 2/15 Folder : Ball State University: A. L. Gabriel. Lecture: "Pictorial History of Mediaeval and Humanistic Student Life and Its Modern Implications" 1971-1972
- CALG 2/16 Folder : Basel and Hungary 1957/0127
- CALG 2/17 Folder : Cap and Gown Prof. Francis, Editor 1952-1961
- CALG 2/18 Folder : The Catholic Youth Encyclopedia. New York City (Harrington) 1961-1964
- CALG 2/19 Folder : Delaruelle- Toulouse 1960-1961
- CALG 2/20 Folder : Dictionnaire Des Lettres Francaises 1961-1963
- CALG 2/21 Folder : Encyclopedia Britannica: Library of Mediaeval Civilization: (Proposal of Dr. Otto Bird) 1969-1971
- CALG 2/22 Folder : Episcopal Transfers Appointments 1953
- CALG 2/23 Folder : Friend, Albert C. 1954-1962
- CALG 2/24 Folder : Fulbright Screening Committee 1962-1963
- CALG 2/25 Folder : Good Counsel College 1962-1966
- CALG 2/26 Folder : Harvard Symposium 1963
- CALG 2/27 Folder : Harvard Visiting Professorship 1963-1964
- CALG 2/28 Folder : Harvard Visiting Professorship 1963-1964
- CALG 2/29 Folder : John Hunyadi Celebration (Five-Hundred Anniversary) 1955-1956
- CALG 2/29.01 Letter : Tarnóczy Ádám to ALG 1956/0712
Ádám has received ALG's message inquiring for information regarding the English translation of the "Bulla". The N.C.W.C. News agency asked for a copy from Father Babis, but there has been some confusion with the order. He begs pardon for the delay. Ádám is happy to hear about the election of Msgr. Szabó, who will give full swing to the Catholic League in the near future. Hungarian
- CALG 2/29.02 Letter : ALG to Ágh László 1955/1127
ALG thanks for the letter of 11/24. He informs László that, unfortunately, his travelling costs are set, but it is fine to pay for it in installments. ALG straightens out the program and the repertoire of the ceremony. He will take part in preparing the short English language abstract on John Hunyadi. He asks his friend if he would prepare the Hungarian version of the invitation. Hungarian