Béla Fogarasi

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Béla Fogarasi (born July 25, 1891 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † April 28, 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian philosopher.

Life

Adalbert Fried's parents Samu Fried and Eleonóra Weisz Magyarized their names in 1902. Fogarasi studied philosophy in Budapest and Heidelberg . In Budapest he was a member of the so-called Sunday Circle around the philosophers Béla Balázs and Georg Lukács . In addition to Karl Mannheim , Arnold Hauser and Erwin Szabó, he is co-founder of the Budapest Free School for the Humanities, where Lukács also gave lectures. In 1918 he joined the Communist Party of Hungary. During the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was the department head for higher education in the People's Commissariat for Education. After the defeat of the republic, he emigrated to Vienna and Berlin . In May 1923 he took part in the Marxist Work Week . Margarete Lissauer, who also took part, later became his wife. She died in Moscow in 1932 . In the 1920s he became a supporter of Stalinism . From 1930 to 1945 he was professor of philosophy in Moscow, in 1945 he went to Budapest, where he taught at the Eötvös Loránd University . In 1953 he was appointed head of the Institute for Economics.

literature

  • Michael Buckmiller : The Marxist Work Week 1923 and the Foundation of the Institute for Social Research. In: Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Willem van Reijen (ed.): Grand Hotel Abgrund. A photobiography of critical theory. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 151.
  • István Szerdahelyi: Fogarasi, Béla . In: Philosophenlexikon by an author collective ed. by Erhard Lange and Dietrich Alexander . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 277-279 Bibliography, p. 279.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raddatz, Fritz J .: Lukács, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1972, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Gyula Borbándi: The cultural policy of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (PDF; 1.6 MB), in: Hungary Yearbook. Journal for interdisciplinary hungarology . Edited by Zsolt K. Lengyel, Volume 5, 1973 ISBN 3-929906-40-6
personal data
SURNAME Fogarasi, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1959
Place of death Budapest , Hungary