Mihály Babits
| Mihály Babits | |
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| Born |
November 26, 1883 Szekszárd, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | August 4, 1941 (aged 57) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Period | 1900–1941 |
| Genre |
Poetry, Short stories, Novels Literary history Essays, lyric poetry |
| Spouse | Ilona Tanner (pen name: Sophie Török) |
| Relatives | Mother: Auróra Kelemen Father: Mihály Babits |
Mihály Babits (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmihaːj ˈbɒbit͡ʃ]; November 26, 1883 – August 4, 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
Babits was born in Szekszárd. He studied at the University of Budapest from 1901 to 1905, where he met Dezső Kosztolányi and Gyula Juhász. He worked to become a teacher and taught at schools in Baja (1905–06), Szeged (1906–08), Fogaras (1908–11), Újpest (1911), and Budapest (1912–18).
His reputation for his poems in the literary life started in 1908.
He made a trip to Italy in the same year, which made him interested in Dante; he made several other trips in later years. This experience led him to translate Dante's Divine Comedy (Hell, 1913, Purgatory, 1920, and Paradise, 1923).
Briefly after the Hungarian Revolution of 1919 he became a Professor of Foreign Literature and modern Hungarian literature at Eötvös Loránd University, but was soon removed for his pacifism after the revolutionary government fell.
In 1911, he became a staff writer on the magazine Nyugat.
Babits' 1918 novel The Nightmare (also known as King's Stork) is a science fiction novel about a split personality influenced by Freudian psychology.Elza pilóta, vagy a tökéletes társadalom ("The Pilot Elza, or the Perfect Society") is set in a utopian future.
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