Julius of Farkas

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Julius von Farkas zu Kisbarnak, also Gyula Farkas (officially Hungarian kisbarnaki Farkas Gyula ) (born September 27, 1894 in Eisenstadt , Austria-Hungary ; † July 12, 1958 in Göttingen ) was a Hungarian-German linguist.

Life

Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: grave of Julius von Farkas

Gyula Farkas studied Hungarian and Romance philology at the University of Budapest and received her doctorate in 1919. After graduating, he worked as a lecturer at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with Ernst Lewy . From 1925 to 1928 he worked at the University of Budapest. In 1928 he became an associate in Berlin . Professor appointed and appointed Professor of Hungarian Language and Literature in 1932. During the Nazi era , he was chairman of the German-Hungarian Society and curator of the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin. When in Germany in 1939 he was asked to remove his dual citizenship, he renounced his Hungarian citizenship on the advice of his boy scout friend and then Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki . During the Second World War he was repeatedly drafted into the Wehrmacht and was also used as a soldier in Hungary during the German occupation in 1944.

After the Second World War, he founded the Finno-Ugric Seminar at the University of Göttingen in 1947 . In 1957 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Rolf Dencker; Gustav Ränk ; Joseph Wiesner : The cultures of the Eurasian peoples . Frankfurt am Main: Academ. Verl.-Ges. Athenaion, 1968
  • The Munich Code. A Hungarian language monument from 1466 . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1958
  • Hungary's history and culture in documents . Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1955
  • Southeast Europe, an overview . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1955
  • The Hungarian pre-March: Petőfi's age . Berlin: de Gruyter 1943 and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1955
  • Samuel Gyarmathi and the Finnish-Ugric comparison of languages . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1948
  • The struggle for freedom of the Hungarian spirit: 1867-1914; A chapter from d. Story d. more recent Hungarian literature . Berlin: de Gruyter 1940
  • Culture of the Ugro-Finnish peoples . in: Handbuch der Kulturgeschichte: Abt. 2, Potsdam: Athenaion 1936
  • The development of Hungarian literature . Berlin: de Gruyter 1934
  • Hungarian romance . Berlin: de Gruyter 1931
  • Fermenting souls - a story from the Hungarian boy life . Potsdam: L. Voggenreiter 1929
  • A tábortűz üzen: Elbeszélések . Berlin: L. Voggenreiter 1924
  • with Róbert Gragger : Bibliographia Hungariae: Directory of the writings relating to Hungary in non-Hungarian language that appeared in 1861-1921 . Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co., 1923-29.

literature

  • István Futaky; Wolfgang Veenker (ed.): Julius von Farkas on the 100th birthday . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gyula Farkas , short biography at Humboldt University of Berlin
  2. ↑ Gábor Ujváry: The Hungarian Institute of Berlin University, Collegium Hungaricum and the German Science Relations (1916-1944) . In: Holger Fischer , Mirja Juelich [Hrsg.]: Scientific relations and their contribution to modernization, the German-Hungarian example . Munich: Oldenbourg 2005
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Farkas, Julius of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farkas, Gyula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1958
Place of death Goettingen