page_title: Balog de Manko Bük
section_title: Károly Balogh de Mankobük
hierarchical_section_title: Balog de Manko Bük / Károly Balogh de Mankobük
caption_attribution_description: English: Karoly Balogh de Manko Bük Jr., nephew of the hungarian writer Imre Madach, with his wife Margit Berczy
context_page_description: Balogh von Mankobük or Balog de Manko Bück in its present Germanized form, mankóbüki Balogh in Hungarian, is a noble family from the Habsburg Monarchy, originally from the region of Sopron County, which belongs to the historical Hungarian nobility.
  The mankóbüki family were landowners at the former village of Alsóbük, Mankóbük, Kingdom of Hungary. Their origins date back to the beginning of the Habsburg rule of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was then also divided in the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Ottoman Hungary, and are documented in the area of Bük since 1552.
  The Habsburg Monarchy was later transformed in 1804 to the Austrian Empire, after the Ausgleich, from 1867 onwards Austria-Hungary came to existence, and collapsed after the Austro-Hungarian defeat of World War One.
context_section_description: Born in Buda (11 June 1848) and died in Pécs (9 April 1920), Károly was a judge and later president of the Royal Court (Tabula Regia or Király Tábla in Hungarian) in Pécs as well as a knight of the Order of the Iron Crown.
  He was the son of Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük (1808-1849), captain at the Imperial Dragoons cavalry Regiment "König Ludwig von Bayern" in the Austrian Imperial Army, and his wife Mária Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (1816-1849), daughter of an imperial and royal chamberlain and landowner.
  His father had been wounded in Transylvania during a major battle in Temesvár, fighting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, so his mother went to assist him. Károly became an orphan at barely the age of one when both his parents were murdered by armed Romanian peasants in the summer of 1849, during their journey back home. At the time of the tragedy he had been left behind with his grandmother at the Madách castle in Alsósztregova (present-day Dolná Strehová, Slovakia).
  He was raised by his uncle, the famous writer Imre Madách, who took him in his care and raised him together with his own son, Aladár, at the Madách family castle. Traits from that common family history can still be found today in the Slovak National Museum since the department of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia is based both in Bratislava and in the Madách Castle. Both the garden and the castle are open to the public as part of the Slovak National Museum permanent exhibition.
  He studied law in Pressburg, (Pozsony, today's Bratislava) and worked for the Ministry of Justice, eventually becoming president of the Royal Court in Pécs.
  He had artistic pursuits in his spare time, mostly through painting and poetry.
  He illustrated tales and children's books of the Hungarian novelist Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó as well.
  While he served in the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, he captured the essence of war in Sarajevo, through a number of paintings and drawings, which were published under the name of: Krieg-Bilder-Skizzen aus dem Bosnisch-Herzegovinischen Occupations-Feldzug, 1878 von der Marschlinie Brod, Sarajevo, Visegrad bis an den Limm in Wien (1879).
  He married Margaret Bérczy de Gyarmat, daughter of the notorious poet and editor Károly Bérczy de Gyarmat, in Budapest (12 October 1875). In 1912, at the age of 64, he wrote his memoirs "Gyermekkorom emlékei" or "Memories of childhood".
  He was awarded the Imperial Order of the Iron Crown Second Class (Kaiserlicher Orden der Eisernen Krone) for his civil merits in 1914.
caption: Károly Balog v. Mankobük Jr., nephew of the Hungarian writer Imre Madách, with wife Margit Bérczy de Gyarmat
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