Ida Ferenczy

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Empress Elisabeth was assassinated in Geneva on 10 September 1898. Ferenczy was struck extremely hard by the tragedy, having spent almost forty years serving her and never marrying. Together with the Empress' youngest and favourite child, Archduchess Marie Valerie, she took care of her estate and took a large part of the Empress' writings with her when she left the court. She took up residency in Vienna, first on Reisnerstraße, then in the Schönbrunn district. In 1899, she founded the Queen Elisabeth Memorial Museum in Budapest that opened in 1908. The museum was closed after the Second World War, but much of it had already been destroyed by that time. She lived another thirty years after Empress Elisabeth's death and had to see the deaths of Baron Franz Nopcsa in 1904, Countess Marie Festetics in 1923 and Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1924, as well as the Austro-Hungarian Empire falling apart in the First World War and the Habsburg dynasty losing the throne and going into exile. Ida Ferenczy died at the age of 89 on 28 June 1928 in Vienna and was buried in her place of birth, Kecskemét, in the family crypt of the Ferenczys at the Trinity cemetery.

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Ida Krisztina Veronika Ferenczy de Vecseszék (7 April 1839 – 28 June 1928) was a Hungarian noblewoman who served Empress Elisabeth of Austria as a lady-in-waiting—and favourite and confidant—from 1864 until the Empress' death in 1898.

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Ancestry and early life Ida Krisztina Veronika Ferenczy of Vecseszék was born into an old family of Hungarian landed gentry in Kecskemét as the fourth of six children born to Gergely Ferenczy de Vecseszék (1795-1879) and his wife Krisztina Szeless de Kisjácz (1809-1856). The education she received was similar to that of most noble women in the Hungarian countryside at the time: she learned to read and write and spoke German very well. However, Ferenczy continued learning as an autodidact. Her taste in literature was influenced by writer Ida Miticzky, who moved to Kecskemét in 1862, with whom she also practiced reading out loud in an expressive manner.

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Serving the Empress of Austria in Vienna Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who was also the Queen of Hungary, was enthusiastic about Hungary from an early age, which led to her decision to start learning Hungarian in 1863 and surround herself with Hungarian ladies-in-waiting. She was presented with a list of suitable women, with the name of Ida Ferenczy at the bottom of the page in a different handwriting. It is unclear how and why a woman from the lower nobility was added to the list, but the Empress chose her. The two women immediately developed a liking to each other at their first meeting: the Empress was impressed by the natural, open behavior and sincerity of her new companion and Ferenczy found her employer to be charming, intelligent and beautiful. Soon, they became friends and the Empress, who often felt lonely in the Austrian court, confided in her, using Hungarian almost as a secret language. The Empress even used the informal you (te) of the Hungarian language when addressing Ferenczy, something she otherwise only did when talking to her closest family. Ferenczy belonged to a group of "appartementmäßigen Damen", who were allowed access to the Empress' private living quarters at…Citește mai mult