István Sharif Horthy de Nagybanya was born 17 January 1941 in Budapest, Hungary to István Horthy (1904-1942) and Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai (1918-2013) . He married Henrietta Josephine Chamberlain (1932) 17 September 1960 in London, United Kingdom.
István Horthy de Nagybánya II (born 17 January 1941) is a Hungarian physicist and architect, son of Hungarian deputy regent István Horthy and Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, and grandson of Admiral Miklós Horthy who served as Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. In 1965 he converted to Islam and took the name Sharif Horthy.
He graduated in 1962 with a degree in Physics from Oxford University. He earned a second degree in Civil Engineering at Imperial College in 1966. He worked as a consulting engineer in England and later in the Far East where he founded and managed two major Indonesian companies in the fields of consulting engineering, construction and property development. After years in Boston, in the USA, from where he assisted clients in Europe, the Pacific Rim and the United States with their international business strategies, Horthy settled in East Sussex, on the English coast.
Horthy is one of the main ideologists of the Subud. He married twice: his first wife was Henrietta Josephine Chamberlain, they have five children. Secondly, he married an Indonesian woman.
External links
- Sharif Horthy rövid életrajza
- Horthy írása a szubudról
- Horthy Sharif, Magyar Televízió, Különös történetek, 2008. November 12. (Hungarian)
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Leonhard István Horthy (1961) | 1 September 1961 London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| Ilona Linda Horthy (1963) | 4 August 1963 London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| Henry Horthy (1965) | 29 July 1965 London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| Marianne Horthy (1967) | 14 September 1967 London, England, United Kingdom | ||
| Stuart Horthy (1971) | 28 July 1971 London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Residences
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| István Horthy (1941) | 17 January 1941 Budapest, Hungary | Henrietta Josephine Chamberlain (1932) | |
Footnotes (including sources)
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Horthy, Istvan, Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horthy, Sharif |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Subud member |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17 January 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest, Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |