Ferenc Toldy

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Ferenc Toldy

Ferenc Toldy (originally Franz Karl Joseph Schedel) (born August 10, 1805 in Ofen , † December 10, 1875 in Budapest ) was a German-born Hungarian literary historian .

His parents, the royal official Franz Schedel and his wife Josepha Thalherr, sent him to the city of Cegléd for a year , where he attended the Hungarian high school and learned the Hungarian language .

Toldy studied medicine , then practiced for some time as a district doctor in Pest , but soon turned completely to literature , in which he had already started to work (mainly with translations) early on.

After a trip that took him to Berlin , London and Paris , returned in 1830, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy and in 1835 also its secretary. He held this office until 1861. From 1833 to 1844 he taught as an associate professor of dietetics at the University of Pest. In 1836 he was one of the founding members of the Kisfaludy Society . From 1843 until a year before his death he was director of the Budapest University Library . In 1861 he received the professorship in Hungarian literature at the University of Pest.

His main works are: Handbuch der Hungarian Poetry (Pest 1828), through which Hungarian poetry was introduced for the first time in a more comprehensive way into German literature; then in Hungarian the unfinished history of Hungarian national literature (Pest 1851–53) and history of Hungarian poetry: from d. oldest times except for Alex. Kisfaludy (Pest 1854; German von Steinacker, 1863).

According to him, the famous Budapest Toldy Ferenc Grammar School is in Buda Castle named (Vár), originally a major realgymnasium was.

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