Géza Ottlik

Géza Ottlik (born May 9, 1912 in Budapest ; † October 9, 1990 there ) was a Hungarian writer , translator , mathematician and bridge theorist. He is considered to be an outstanding figure on the Hungarian intellectual scene.

Géza Ottlik attended the military schools in Kőszeg and Budapest and studied mathematics and physics in Budapest. During World War II , he hid a Jewish friend from persecution by the fascists. For this he was honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

He translated u. a. Works by George Bernard Shaw , Evelyn Waugh , Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig into Hungarian and has written several bridge books.

His most famous novel is called The School on the Border and was published in 1959. In 1963 it was published in German as a translation by Charlotte Ujlaky and in 2009 with an afterword by Péter Esterházy .

Works (selection)

• with Hugh Kelsey : Adventures in Card Play (= Master Bridge Series ). Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1979, ISBN 0-575-02608-1 (new edition, Cassell in Association with Peter Crawley, London 2005, ISBN 0-304-36807-5 ).
• Továbbélők. Jelenkor, Pécs 1999, ISBN 963-676-195-7 (In German: Die Nachlebenden . Roman (= literary wonderland Hungary 002). Translated from Hungarian by Éva Zádor. Kortina, Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-86269-7-6 ) .
• Iskola a határon. Magvető Könyvkiadó, Budapest 1959 (In German: The School on the Border (= The Other Library, Vol. 293). From the Hungarian by Charlotte Ujlaky. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-6221-7 ) .

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1. ↑ http://www.hlo.hu/news/geza_ottlik_was_born_100_years_ago accessed on September 7, 2012
2. ↑ Géza Ottlik - his work to save Jews during the Holocaust , on the Yad Vashem website (English)

Web links

• Literature by and about Géza Ottlik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Image by Ottlik