Miksa Fenyő
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Miksa Fenyő , (born December 8, 1877 in Mélykút , Bács-Bodrog county ; † April 4, 1972 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, economic functionary, from 1931 member of parliament during the Horthy regime and for 24 hours Hungarian Minister of Economics in the government of János Hadik in 1918. He was co-founder of the legendary literary magazine Nyugat , which translates as "The West".
Life
Fenyő was born as Miksa Fleischmann as one of eight children of parents Fülöp Fleischmann and Lujza Melczer into a Jewish tailor's family. He attended the Evangelical Gymnasium in Budapest and then studied law at the University of Budapest . In 1904 he got a job with the Hungarian Federation of Industrialists (GYOSZ - Gyáriparosok Országos Szövetsége). In 1908 he founded the literary magazine Nyugat with Ignotus and Ernõ Osvát , was one of its editors and ran the publishing house of the same name, in which he also published his own books. He was a mentor to Endre Ady . He aroused interest in Casanova's writings in Hungary through a monograph and through his own contributions to Nyugat .
He was an independent MP in the Hungarian Parliament from 1931 to 1935. He was an opponent of Hitler and the Arrow Cross and dealt with a book about Hitler their hostility.
In 1946 he published his experiences from the time of the Second World War , when he had to hide from the Eichmann Command and its Hungarian helpers in the Döme Sztójay and Ferenc Szálasi governments for political reasons and because of his Jewish descent from 1946.
After establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion asked to be active there, politically, he declined, especially its religious ties him rather than an agnostic identified as a Jew, he was also thirty previously converted years for economic reasons to Catholicism, and the without inner conviction. In 1948 he fled Hungary from the Hungarian Stalinists and emigrated to Rome and Paris .
After Fenyő, now over seventy years old, moved to the USA in 1953, he became a citizen there and lived in New York City . Finally he returned to Europe in 1969 with his second wife and lived in Vienna at Seilerstätte 10 , in a house where Freie Blatt was published at the end of the nineteenth century . In his favorite country, Italy , he received the Rome Prize in 1964 for his travel book Ami Kimaradt Az Odysseaból ( What Odysseus forgot to mention ).
After Nyugat's centenary, a docu-drama about its founders has been announced for 2009 .
Works
There are no translations into German. English translations are announced.
- Casanova , NYUGAT Kiadó, Budapest 1912
- Hitler; Egy Tanulmány , NYUGAT Kiadó, Budapest 1934
- Az Elsodort Ország , Révai Kiadó, Budapest 1946 (autobiography about the war years)
- Följegyzések A "NYUGAT" Folyóiratról És Környékrõl , Pátria Könyvkiadó Niagara Falls Ontario, 1960
- Ami Kimaradt Az Odysseából , Griff Kiadó, Munich 1963.
- Önéletrajzom , posthumously, Argumentum Kiadó, Budapest 1994
- Jézus is DP Volt , posthumously, Argumentum Kiadó, Budapest 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ before the Magyarization Philipp Fleischmann and Luisa Melzer
- ↑ see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Deák Téri Evangélikus Gimnázium
- ↑ see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Osvát Ernő
- ↑ Sándor Kozocsa, Casanova Magyarországon epa (PDF; 2.0 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fenyő, Miksa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian journalist and politician, Member of Parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mélykút , Bács-Bodrog county |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1972 |
| Place of death | Vienna |