László Hudec was a Hungarian-Slovak architecture from the 19th century, and will be one of the subjects at our upcoming webinar on 30 January 2021 about Three Giants of Czech and Slovak Architecture.

Hudec was a from a town named Besztercebánya in Austria-Hungary. This town is now known as Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. It was one of only a handful of royal free cities, or "libera regiae civitas" in Latin. These are the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary because they were granted certain privileges by the King, including a measure of autonomy. They were pretty much the Hungarian equivalent to the Holy Roman Empire's Free and Imperial Cities.

Here is a list of the Free Royal Cities of Hungary which were located in what is now the present day Slovakia. As you can see, there aren't really that many!

Leopold Eidlitz (whose life and work will be discussed in the upcoming CGSI Quarterly webinar on 30 January 2021) was born in 1823 in Prague. He emigrated to New York and became a world renowned architect, helping to design the New York State Capitol, St. Peter's Church, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the home of P. T. Barnum in Connecticut, which was called Iranistan. 

And it's here right in front of you.

This is where you want to be.