Jenő Dsida

Jenő Dsida
Jenő Dsida
Born Binder Jenő Emil
(1907-05-17)17 May 1907
Szatmárnémeti, Austria-Hungary (today Satu Mare, Romania)
Died 7 June 1938(1938-06-07) (aged 31)
Cluj, Romania
Resting place Hajongard Cemetery, Cluj, Romania
Occupation poet
Language Hungarian
Nationality Hungarian
Period 1923–1938
Spouse Melinda Imbery
The native form of this personal name is Dsida Jenő. This article uses the Western name order.

Jenő Dsida (Hungarian: Dsida Jenő, pronounced [ˈd͡ʒidɒ ˈjɛnøː]; 17 May 1907 – 7 June 1938) was a Hungarian poet and translator.

Early life

Jenő Dsida was born in 1907, in Transylvania. His father - Aladár Dsida - was an engineering officer in the Common Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, Margit Csengeri Tóth lived in Beregszász and that is where she met and married her husband.

Jenő's childhood was shadowed by World War I and after that by the Romanian occupation. During the war, his father was captured by the Russians, while his uncle was killed in Galicia.

He wanted to be a poet from the very beginning of his youth. He was discovered and helped by Elek Benedek. From 1923 to 1927 his first poems and literary translations were published in the magazine "Cimbora". In 1925, in cause of his parents' will, he studied Law at the Franz Joseph University, but he never graduated.

In 1937, he married the love of his life Melinda Imbery.

Death

Dsida suffered from heart failure and in 1938, he got cold. Therefore he was hospitalized for months in Koloszvár, but unfortunatelly he died in his sleep at the age of 31.

Works

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