Gyula Farkas (linguist)

Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas (27 September 1894, Kismarton/Eisenstadt, Sopron megye - 12 July 1958, Göttingen) was a Hungarian literary historian and Finno-Ugric linguist.

In the 1920s he was a coworker of Robert Gragger (1887-1926) at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.
During World War II he was head of the German-Hungarian Society.
He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the University of Göttingen in 1947.

He wrote over 19 books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian.^[1]

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

1. WorldCat

• "The Sign of a Story" review of Petra Török's (ed) 'A határ és a határolt. A magyar irodalom létformáiról [The Boundary and the Bounded Off: Meditations on the Miodes of Being of Hungarian Literature]". Budapest Review of Books, Feb. 3, 1999. ("a very thorough account of the relations between Gyula Farkas...")

External links

• Works by or about Gyula Farkas in libraries (WorldCat catalog)