Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist)

Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas (September 27, 1894, Kismarton/Eisenstadt, Sopron megye - July 12, 1958, Göttingen) was a Hungarian literary historian and Finno-Ugric linguist.

In the 1920s he was a coworker of Robert Gragger (1887-1926) at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.
During World War II he was head of the "German-Hungarian Society".
He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the University of Göttingen in 1947.

He wrote over 19 books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian. [ [http://worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGyula+von+Farkas&qt=hot_author WorldCat] ]

Literary works

* "Die Entwicklung der ungarischen Literatur", 1934
* "Der ungarische Vormärz Petöfis Zeitalter." 1943 (held in 13 US libraries)
* "Geschichte der ungarischen Literaturwissenschaft", 1944

References

*"The Sign of a Story" review of Petra Török's (ed) 'A határ és a határolt. A magyar irodalom létformáiról [The Boundary and the Bounded Off: Meditations on the Miodes of Being of Hungarian Literature] ". "Budapest Review of Books", Feb. 3, 1999. [http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=9dc16b1f-06a1-4a58-8b9a-9881c884e85a&articleId=26e3d394-5006-4373-a7fa-6da31c3c18a0] ("a very thorough account of the relations between Gyula Farkas...")

External links

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