Adolf Dux
Adolf Dux (born October 25, 1822 in Pressburg ; died November 29, 1881 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer.
Life
Adolf Dux completed his legal studies in Pressburg and during the same started his career as a writer. He died on November 20, 1881 in Budapest, where he had lived almost continuously since 1855.
Dux was the first to introduce Sándor Petőfi into German literature with the translation of a volume of selected poems (Vienna 1847). He also translated the Hungarian tragedy Bánk bán by József Katona (Leipzig 1858) and numerous other poems in verse and prose, e.g. B. József Eötvös Carthusian (7th edition Vienna 1878). In the original works he published some novellas such as German-Hungarian (Vienna 1871) and others, and some literary and cultural-historical studies, which were collected under the title: From Hungary (Leipzig 1880).
literature
- Adolf Dux , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, pp. 844-846
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Dux in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dux, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dux, Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1881 |
| Place of death | Budapest |