Péter Szondi

Péter Szondi (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi]; May 27, 1929, Budapest – November 9, 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary.

Szondi's father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release after five months in Bergen-Belsen.[1]

In 1965, he became a Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for General and Comparative Literature. His fields were the history of literature and comparative literature.

He committed suicide in 1971, leaving unfinished his book about the work of his friend Paul Celan, who had died of suicide the year before.

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