László Németh
| Németh László | |
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László Németh in 1919
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| Born |
18 April 1901 Nagybánya |
| Died | 3 March 1975 (aged 73) Budapest |
| Resting place | Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest |
| Pen name | László Lelkes |
| Occupation | Dentist, Teacher |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Notable awards |
Baumgarten Prize (1930) Attila József Prize (1951) Kossuth Prize (1957) Gold Order of Merit for Work (1961) Herder Prize (1965) Batsányi Prize (1968) |
| Spouse | Ella Démusz (married 1925) |
László Németh was a Hungarian dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist. He was born in Nagybánya the son of József Németh (1873–1946) and Vilma Gaál (1879–1957). Over the Christmas of 1925, he married Ella Démusz (1905–1989), the daughter of János Démusz, a keeper of a public house. Between 1926 and 1944 they had six daughters, but two of them died in infancy. In 1959 he visited the Soviet Union. In the last part of his life he lived and worked in Sajkód. He died from a stroke on 3 March 1975 in Budapest and was buried in Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest, and now shares a grave with his wife.
Németh was awarded a degree in dentistry in 1925, and worked in Szent János (English: Saint John) Hospital. He founded a dental practice, but later became a medical practitioner for schools.
In 1926 he opened his dental surgery, although he continued to work as a freelance at the Saint John's Hospital in the Department of Neurology. He was a medical practitioner for Toldy School from 1926 to 1927, at the Egressy Street School from 1928 to 1931, and at Medve Street School from 1933 to 1943, when he retired as a medical practitioner. In the winter of 1927 he contracted tuberculosis and travelled to Italy and Felsőgöd to convalesce, retiring from his career as a dentist.
Between 1945 and 1948 he was a casual teacher in the history of Hungarian literature, in mathematics, and other subjects, at the grammar school in Hódmezővásárhely. In 1946 Minister of Education Dezső Keresztúry offered him a job as a school inspector for the College of Further Education, and he worked arranging the college's curriculum.
In December 1925 Németh won the first prize in a competition run by Nyugat magazine for his novel Horváthné meghal, ("Mrs Horváth Died").
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