Franz Ferdinand Baumgarten
Franz Ferdinand Baumgarten (born November 6, 1880 in Budapest , † January 18, 1927 in Starý Smokovec ) was a Hungarian writer , critic and literary historian .
Grave on the Kerepesi temető
Life
Baumgarten, who published in German, wrote, among other things, a work on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , which saw several editions. His pamphlet Zirkus Reinhardt from 1920 was directed against Max Reinhardt . Thomas Mann reported in a letter to Ernst Bertram on February 6, 1918 , that the day before he had heard an "extremely clever" lecture by Baumgarten, who, a "highly elegant Budapest master with a monocle and a cane", had also visited him.
Baumgarten founded the Baumgarten Prize in 1923 , which was awarded as an important Hungarian literary prize until 1949.
Works
- The work of Conrad Ferdinand Meyers. Renaissance feeling and stylistic art , Munich 1917
- Reinhardt Circus , Potsdam 1920
- The mother , Berlin 1921
literature
- Baumgarten, Franz Ferdinand. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 420-421.
Web links
Commons : Ferdinánd Baumgarten Ferenc - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Franz Ferdinand Baumgarten in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumgarten, Franz Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian writer, critic and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1927 |
| Place of death | Starý Smokovec |