Gyorgy Dungyersky
Nickname: Goga
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| Bio | György Dungyersky, better known by the nickname Goga, belonged to the ancient and well-known Serbian family of Dunderski, the roots of which go far back to Herzegovina from where his ancestors moved to Srbobran in the 17th century, fleeing from the Ottoman occupation. The most prominent members of the Dunderski family lived in Novi Sad before the First World War, and up to the Second World War occupied important positions in small businesses. Dungyersky was born in 1902 in Srbobran to his father Jasa and mother Vera, the latter being the daughter of a lawyer in Novi Sad, a town to which they had moved in 1907. The young Dungyersky was well educated and spoke French better than his mother tongue; he spoke Serbian with a French accent. For high school, he attended the Dugonics András Piarista Gimnázium in Szeged to learn Latin and Hungarian. To avoid conflicts in the First World War, the family escaped to Geneva where he graduated in 1922. It was in Switzerland where he began playing tennis, becoming a high school champion. The family returned to Novi Sad immediately after the war. Dungyersky embarked on law studies at the University of Zagreb, but left during the second semester to focus on tennis. After retiring from tennis, Dungyersky became a tennis instructor in Geneva, and acted as sparring partner to many famous diplomats including Arthur Balfour. In 1939 he returned to Novi Sad but was never able to enter elite society because he was considered a foreigner and an extravagant person, although he had inherited a large estate from his father and thus had the status of a landowner. After World War II he was stripped of all of his Srbobranu assets by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He could not get a job as he had done no work apart from playing tennis full-time. He was only permitted occasional access to tennis clubs in exchange for his part-time assistance to the Tennis Association when it needed to tap on his ability to speak, write and read in five languages as an international liaison. Dungyersky married in 1951 but divorced in 1969. He supported himself by selling parts of his estate until the remainder was nationalized. He was permitted to keep two apartments and lived in them until he sold them, whereupon he became homeless. He moved from town to town, finding shelter in the homes of old friends. Eventually, his social security expired and he died in a poorhouse in Futog in 1983. Source: wikipedia |
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