László Passuth

Memorial plaque in Budapest

László Passuth (born July 15, 1900 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † June 19, 1979 in Balatonfüred ) was a Hungarian writer.

Life

László Passuth studied law and then worked in a bank. After the Second World War he worked as a translator in communist Hungary.

He published his first novel in 1937, he mainly wrote historical novels, also on music history.

In 1937 his daughter Krisztina Passuth was born, who later worked as an art historian and exhibition curator.

Works (selection)

• Eurázia. Novel . Budapest 1937
• Esőisten siratja Mexikót . Budapest 1939 (via Hernán Cortés )
  • The rain god weeps over Mexico . Translated from the Hungarian by Andreas Gáspáru and Edith Plany-Mindszent. Graz: Leykam, 1950
• Nápolyi Johanna . Budapest 1940 (via Queen Joan I of Naples )
• Nemzetnevelésünk fő kérdései . Debrecen, University, dissertation 1941
• Anna Komnena : Alexias . Budapest: Officina, 1943
• A bíborbanszületett . Budapest 1943 (via Béla III. )
  • Born in purple . Translation by Alexander Sacher-Masoch . Vienna: Neff, 1962
• Fekete barsonyban . Budapest, 1946
  • In black velvet: Roman . Translation by Alexander Sacher-Masoch . Vienna: Neff, 1960
• A mantuai herceg muzsikusa . Budapest: Zenemúkiado Vállalat, 1957 (on Claudio Monteverdi )
  • Monteverdi: the novel of a great musician . Translation by Alexander Sacher-Masoch . Vienna: Neff, 1959
  • Divino Claudio: A Monteverdi novel . Heinrich Weissling in Romanian. Licensed edition Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik 3rd edition 1982
• Lagunak . Budapest, 1958
  • Love and death in the lagoons: novel . Translation by Alexander Sacher-Masoch . Vienna: Neff, 1961
• Sasnak körme között . Budapest 1956 (about Jelena Zrinski )
• Ravennában temették Rómát . Budapest: Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, 1963 (on Theodoric the Great )
  • Rome was buried in Ravenna . Heinrich Weissling in Romanian. Leipzig: Prisma-Verlag, 1971
• Aranyködben fáznak az istenek . Budapest, Szépirodalmi 1965
  • Banquet for Imperia. A Raphael novel . Heinrich Weissling in Romanian. Budapest: Corvina Publishing House, 1968
• Madrigál . Budapest, 1968 (via Carlo Gesualdo )
  • Madrigal . Translation of Henriette and Géza Engl. Budapest: Corvina-Verlag, 1972

literature

• Géza Hegedüs: Passuth László , in: A magyar irodalom arcképcsarnoka (hu)
• Passuth László , in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (hu)

Web links

Commons : László Passuth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about László Passuth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about László Passuth in the bibliographic database WorldCat