Károly Molter

The native form of this personal name is Molter Károly. This article uses the Western name order.

Károly Molter

Károly Molter (December 2, 1890 – November 30, 1981) was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist, literary critic, journalist and academic. He spent most of his life in the region of Transylvania, being successively a national of Austria-Hungary and Romania.

Biography

Born in Óverbász (Vrbas), Vojvodina region, Molter was from an ethnic German (Danube Swabian) family, but adopted Hungarian as his language.^[1] He studied at the College of Kecskemét, and then at the University of Budapest Faculty of Philosophy in Letter (the Hungarian-German section).^[1]

In 1913, he moved to Transylvania, settling down in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureş).^[1] Between 1913 and 1945, he was a teacher in the Bolyai Gymnasium, a Reformed Church college in the city.^[1] In the interwar period, after the union of Transylvania with Romania, he became a member of the Erdélyi Helikon group in Marosvécs (Brâncoveneşti), as well as sitting on the editorial staff of Zord Idő magazine.^[1] In 1937, he published one of his most successful works, the novel Tibold Márton, which depicted a Swabian family in the process of adopting Hungarian culture, as well as the problems faced by ethnic minorities in their relation to the majority.^[1]

After 1945, Molter was employed by the Bolyai faculty in Cluj, were he lectured in German language and literature.^[1] Retiring in 1950, he moved back to Târgu Mureş, and died there 31 years later.^[1]

Works

• F. m. Melánia R. T. (1929)
• Tibold Márton (1937)
• Bolond kisváros ("Foolish Little Town", 1942)
• Reformáció és magyar műveltség ("Reformation and the Hungarian Culture", 1944)
• Harci mosolyok ("Martial Smiles", 1956; short stories)
• Iparkodj kisfiam! ("Struggle, My Little Son!", 1964)
• Szellemi belháború ("The Intellectual Interwar", 1968)
• Komor korunk derűje ("The Brightness in Our Somber Times", 1971; anecdotes)
• Örökmozgó ("Perpetual Motion", 1974; plays)
• Buborékharc ("Bubble War", 1980; essays)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} (Romanian) Lucian Nastasă, Levente Salat (eds.), Maghiarii din România şi etica minoritară (1920-1940), p.236, at the Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center. Open Society Foundation Romania; retrieved September 2, 2007

Further reading

• László Ablonczy, Molter Károly XC., 1980
• György Beke, Molter Károly hagyatéka ("The Bequest of Károly Molter"), 1982
• Ildikó Marosi,
  • Molter Károly, 1974
  • Molter Károly levelezése ("Károly Molter's Correspondence"), 1995
• Pál Sőni, Molter Károly, 1981
• Lajos Szakolczay, Egy gazdag életút ("A Rich Lifetime"), 1970
• János Szász, A Molter példa érvényessége ("The Present-day Relevancy of the Molter Example"), 1986
• Áron Tóbiás, Molter Károlynál Marosvásárhelyen ("At Károly Molter's Home in Târgu Mureş"), 1989
• Tibor Tószegi, Molter Károly kilencvenéves ("Károly Molter at Age 90"), 1980

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Name	Molter, Karoly
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Date of birth	December 2, 1890
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Date of death	November 30, 1981
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