Edith Hoffmann (7 December 1888, in

Brașov Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County. According to the latest Romanian census ( 2011), Brașov has a po ...

– 6 April 1945, in

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) was a Hungarian art historian and

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painter, best remembered for her publications of the works of

Miklós Barabás Miklós Barabás (10 February 1810, in Markersdorf, Covasna County, Romania – 12 February 1898, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young Franz Liszt, done ...

and her silhouettes of

Mihály Babits Mihály Babits (; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological pro ...

Dezső Kosztolányi Dezső Kosztolányi (; March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used ...

, and

Sándor Sík Sándor Sík (20 January 1889 – 28 September 1963) was a Hungarian writer and priest, a representative of the New Catholic poetry in Hungary. He was a professor of literature at Szeged University from 1930; from 1948 he was the Piarist Order's ...

. A graduate of the

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and the

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, she worked as a curator at the

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and the Museum of Fine Arts.

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1888 births 1945 deaths Hungarian art historians 20th-century Hungarian women painters Hungarian non-fiction writers {{Hungary-historian-stub