Farkas Gyula de Kisbarnak, or Julius von Farkas de Kisbarnak ( (27 September 1894, in Kismarton/

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, Sopron megye – 12 July 1958, in

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) was a Hungarian literary historian and

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Biography

He was born into the Roman Catholic

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n Hungarian noble family

Farkas de Kisbarnak Farkas ("Wolf" in Hungarian) is a Hungarian surname and a given name. In Czech and Slovak languages it is rendered as Farkaš. List of persons with the surname * Alexander S. Farkas, former executive of Alexander's, an American department store ...

. His father was Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak (1849–1937), captain of the Hungarian Royal army, notary of

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and his mother was Gizella Pottyondy de Potyond und Csáford (1864–1921). His paternal grandfather was Farkas Ferenc de Kisbarnak (1820–1882), administrator of the states of

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, property of the county

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s, and his paternal grandmother was Cecília Hoffmann (1826–1907). His maternal grandparents were dr. Ágoston Pottyondy de Potyond et Csáford, lawyer, and Mária Grohmann (1840–1918). His paternal uncle was Gyula Farkas de Kisbarnak (1847–1930), Hungarian

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and

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. His brother was

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak ( Hungarian: vitéz kisbarnaki Farkas Ferenc; May 27, 1892 – April 14, 1980) was Chief Scout of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, commanding officer of the Royal Ludovica Military Academy, the country's officer training s ...

, General of the Hungarian VI Army Corps during

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. In the 1920s Gyula was a coworker of Róbert Gragger (1887–1926) at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. During

he was head of the ''German-Hungarian Society''. He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the

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in 1947. He wrote over nineteen books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian.WorldCat
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Literary works

* ''Die Entwicklung der ungarischen Literatur'', 1934 * ''Der ungarische Vormärz Petöfis Zeitalter.'' 1943 (held in 13 US libraries) * ''Geschichte der ungarischen Literaturwissenschaft'', 1944

References

* "The Sign of a Story" review of Petra Török's (ed) 'A határ és a határolt. A magyar irodalom létformáiról he Boundary and the Bounded Off: Meditations on the Miodes of Being of Hungarian Literature. ''Budapest Review of Books'', 3 February 1999

("a very thorough account of the relations between Gyula Farkas...") Hungarian literary historians Linguists of Indo-European languages Hungarian Finno-Ugrists People from Eisenstadt 1894 births 1958 deaths 20th-century Hungarian linguists {{Hungary-linguist-stub