Ignotus

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first edition Nyugat 1908. Ignotus as editor-in-chief

Ignotus (Latin: "the unknown"; born as Hugó Veigelsberg ) (born November 2, 1869 in Pest , Austria-Hungary ; died August 3, 1949 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian publicist, literary critic, poet and writer.

Life

Hugó Veigelsberg grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family. His father Leó Veigelsberg was editor-in-chief of Pester Lloyd , his son Pál Ignotus (1901–1978) became an important writer and essayist.

Ignotus received his doctorate in law from Budapest University, then became a journalist. From 1891 he worked for the magazine A Hét , where he started a recipe collection in 1893 , which appeared in the book Emma asszony szakácskönyve - A Hét szakácskönyve . In 1902 he went to the daily Magyar Hírlap . During these years he traveled to Germany, Turkey, the Balkans and the USA. In 1906 he was one of the co-founders of the Szerda magazine .

In 1908 he founded the literary magazine Nyugat with Ernő Osvát and Miksa Fenyő and was its editor-in-chief from 1908 to 1929 . He was the first to understand the originality of Endre Ady (1906) and to draw attention to the values ​​of the work of Mihály Babits (1908). Ignotus was enthusiastic about Zsigmond Móricz , in 1915 he discovered Józsi Jenő Tersánszky . After the death of Pál Gyulai in 1909, Ignotus became the Hungarian " literary pope ". In the revolutionary year of 1919 he went to Vienna, from where he continued his journalistic activities. He was also one of the first to draw attention to the poet Attila József (1926). After Ernő Osvát's death in 1929, his name was also removed from the front page of Nyugat , causing a personal and serious argument with Babits.

Ignotus fled from Vienna via Budapest to London in 1938 and went to the USA in 1941. In 1948 he returned to Hungary terminally ill.

Literary prizes

  • Pro Arte
  • Baumgarten Prize (1949)

Works

Tomb of Ignotus on the Kerepesi temető in Budapest. Sculpture by István Martsa .

There are no translations.

  • A Slemil keservei (1891)
  • Vallomások (1895)
  • Változatok G-húron (1902)
  • A Hét szakácskönyve (1902), (1906), (1908)
  • Olvasás közben (1906)
  • Feljegyzések (1909)
  • Kísérletek (1910)
  • Színházi dolgok (1912)
  • Egy év történelem (1916)
  • Ignotus Verseiből (1918)
  • Ignotus novelláiból (1918)

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1. Saur, 1983, Munich ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 550
  • Ignotus, Hugo, b. Vegelsberg, Angelo . In: Élisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Veigelsberg Leó
  2. ↑ See Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Ignotus Pál
  3. ↑ See Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Tersánszky Józsi Jenő
  4. ↑ see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Baumgarten-díj
personal data
SURNAME Ignotus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veigelsberg, Hugó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer, poet, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1949
Place of death Budapest