Karoly Hajdu (1920-1981) was a Hungarian-born impostor turned fringe evolutionary theorist. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else often to try to gain financial or social advantages through Social engineering, but just as often
Born near Budapest in 1920, Hajdu in the wake of World War II moved to England, and in 1948 began to use the name Baron Carl Hajdu. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1956 he collected money for Hungarian freedom fighters resisting the then Soviet occupation but, it was later revealed, had pocketed all the proceeds. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom) was a spontaneous nationwide Revolt against the Stalinist government of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Hajdu was sentenced for fraud in 1957, and was duly forced into bankruptcy. In the broadest sense a fraud is a Deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual
Hajdu then adopted the persona of author and society hypnotherapist Michel Karoly and rented a posh apartment in Mayfair. Hypnotherapy is therapy that is undertaken with a subject in Hypnosis. Mayfair is an area of central London, England, within the City of Westminster. He became quite popular in polite society, and even sustained a column in a mass-selling magazine of the time as what today might be called an agony uncle. Karoly continued in this role until 1965 when his wife, and his lover, each died, and he again went bust. In 1966 he was sentenced to two months in jail for taking out a loan whilst bankrupt.
In 1968 he adopted the new and most spectacular role of Dr Charlotte Bach, a supposed former lecturer at Budapest's illustrious Eötvös Loránd University, whose alumni include the philosophers Michael and Karl Polanyi and the mathematician John von Neuman, godfather of the cybernetic revolution and one of the greatest scientists of modern times. Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) ( March 11, 1891, Budapest – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian – Karl Paul Polanyi ( October 25, 1886, Vienna, Austria — April 23, 1964, Pickering Ontario) was a Hungarian At first occasionally and bizarrely working as a dominatrix, she lived full-time as Charlotte Bach until she died. A dominatrix (from the Latin dominatrix, meaning a female ruler or Mistress plural dominatrices or dominatrixes) or Mistress is a woman who Bach was thus what is sometimes referred to as a non-op transgendered person. In 1971 she announced her new theory of evolution which, she insisted, displaced Darwinism in favour of Lamarckism. eVolution is the third Album by eLDee, it was due to be released in 2008 Darwinism is a term used for various different movements or concepts related to a greater or lesser extent to Charles Darwin 's work on Evolution. Lamarckism (or Lamarckian evolution) is the once widely accepted idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring (also
Bach argued that humans actually experience a pull towards becoming the opposite sex, and that this urge can either be denied or 'asseverated'. (Gays and femme lesbians are women in men’s bodies or vice versa, but transvestites and butch lesbians are not; and this gives rise to eight possible permutations. ) Upon such reasoning, backed up by a polymathic accumulation of supporting evidence, she built her alternative theory of evolution, known as Human Ethology.
Bach attracted the interest of the English writer Colin Wilson, as well as of a number of eminent British scientists and academics. Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931 in Leicester) is a prolific British writer Wilson began to write about her theory, and Bach became a cult figure, with a small group of followers who would gather at her home in Highgate. Highgate is a suburb of North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. An Institute of Human Ethology was set up to promote her ideas and stimulate further research. She was even invited to speak at Darwin College, Cambridge and Sussex University. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England The University of Sussex is a British Campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is from Brighton She continued to elaborate upon her original thesis up to the time of her death in 1981.
Only then was it revealed to the faithful that Charlotte had practiced what she preached: the autopsy disclosed that she had in fact been an anatomical male.
References
- Wheen, Francis (2002), Who was Dr Charlotte Bach?, ISBN 1-904095-39-9
- Wilson, Colin (1988), The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders, pp. Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist writer and broadcaster Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931 in Leicester) is a prolific British writer Chps 1-2, ISBN 0246129743
- Bach, Charlotte M. & Mellors, Bob (c. Bob Mellors (b1950 d 24 March 1996 in Warsaw) was a British gay rights activist 1985), An outline of human ethology, Another-Orbit Press, OCLC 33346846, <http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3264&inst_id=1>
External links
- Works by or about Karoly Hajdu in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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