Helene von Beniczky-Bajza

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Helene von Beniczky-Bajza

Helene von Beniczky-Bajza , b. Ilona Bajza , (born June 15, 1840 in Pest , † April 2, 1905 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer .

Life

Bajza was born as the daughter of the Hungarian poet and critic József Bajza in Pest, later Budapest. At a young age she came into contact with important Hungarian personalities who frequented her father's house. She met István Széchenyi , Ladislaus Teleki , Mihály Vörösmarty , Ferenc Deák and others who aroused her interest in literature. At the age of 14, Bájsa published her first volume of short stories. In 1858 she married the Pest bookseller Gustav Heckenast . The daughter Ilona was born in 1859, the son Aladár in 1861. The marriage ended in divorce in 1862. In 1862, she married her second husband, the former secretary of state and theater director and former Pest Lord Lieutenant Francis of Beniczky, with whom she lived in Budapest. In her house she ran an "elegant aristocratic salon".

Bajza published over 80 novels, some of which were translated into German by Adolph Kohut , Oskar von Krücken , Ludwig Wechsler and Cäcilie Langsch . At the time she was considered the Hungarian Marlitt . She died in Budapest in 1905.

Works (selection)

  • 1860: Novellas (2 volumes)
  • 1862: Western Europe (travel letters)
  • 1872: Prejudice and Enlightenment (4 volumes)
  • 1884: Countess Ruth (novel)
  • 1887: The eccentric
  • 1888: It is her! (O. v. Crutches)
  • 1890: Martha (Ü. V. L. Greiner)
  • 1890: The mountain lake
  • 1890: With the doors locked (Ü. V. A. Kohut)
  • 1893: The love of lust and suffering (Ü. V. O. v. Krücken)
  • 1894: Rank and money (Ü. V. O. v. Krücken)
  • 1898: The Burden of Beauty (2 volumes)
  • 1901: Late love

literature

  • Beniczky-Bajza, Helene von . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 182.
  • Beniczky, Helene von . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 21.
  • Beniczky-Bajza, Helene von . In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 96.
  • Lenja Bajza . In: Hungary's Men of Time: Biographies and Characteristics of the Most Eminent Personalities . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1862, p. 192.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Karl Wagner, Max Kaiser, Werner Michler (eds.): Peter Rosegger, Gustav Heckenast. Correspondence 1869–1878. Böhlau, Vienna 2003, p. 723.
  2. ^ Karl Anzengruber (Ed.): Traveling singers of today: Experiences of German poets on their lecture tours. Told by themselves . Viennese literary establishment, Vienna 1921, p. 122.
  3. ↑ Literature: Monthly for friends of literature . Volume 7. F. Fontane, 1905, p. 1192.
personal data
SURNAME Beniczky-Bajza, Helene von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bajza, Ilona (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1905
Place of death Budapest