Jenő Rákosi

Jenő Rákosi (born Jenő Kremsner, 12 November 1842, Acsád, Kingdom of Hungary – 8 February 1929, Budapest) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, theater director, editor, and a member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Kisfaludy Society and a member of the Petőfi Association.

His family includes doctor Béla Rákosi, writer Viktor Rákosi, and actress Szidi Rákosi.

He was the son of János Kremsner and Anna Vogel, who were Danube Swabians. His father previously lived in the villages of Ukk and Dabronc, where he worked as a goldsmith and was a bailiff with a small estate. His family changed their name to Rákosi in 1867. By the 1850s, the family had settled in the village of Türje, where his childhood home had a plaque installed by the Danubian Cultural Association in 1942.

Rákosi went to school first in Sárvár, then graduated in started and finished high school in a class of six in Kőszeg and Sopron. A luckily poetic minded young man, he had illustrious teachers Jeromos Lóskay and Flórián Hollósy tutoring him as a senior and managed to get to Sopron Roman Catholic high school. He began, under the pressure of Hungarian political movements, to self-study, which was initially the same in German, but from 1859, it was entirely in Hungarian. Here he mainly wrote short stories, but later, he also wrote plays. The foundation of self-study groups were largely from fellow student János Hérics (Tóth), who later became President of the Royal Court of Appeal. On one occasion, at high school age, Rákosi's parents sent him to Graz and became part of the theatre scene; the German winning piece Birchpfeifer was so pleasing to him that he wanted a copy to be delivered home, especially after seeing the play after listening to the translation.

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