Ferenc Móra
Ferenc Mora ( Mora Ferenc Hungarian, born July 19, 1879 in Kiskunfélegyháza; † February 8, 1934 in Szeged ) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, and museum watchers. He is considered one of the most important writers of Hungarian literature.
Ferenc Mora was born the son of a furrier Márton Mora and the baker Anna Juhász from a humble background. Despite these financial conditions of his family, he brought it to a completed education and then studied in Budapest at the Eötvös Loránd University ( ELTE ), geography and history. He then worked for a year as a teacher in Felsőlövő, then Vas county (Iron Castle ) (now Oberschützen, Burgenland, Austria ).
In parallel, he became a well-known author on the one hand for young people's literature, on the other hand, numerous short stories and novels in the tradition of European epic of the 19th century, about his darkly poetic " masterpiece ... one of the most beautiful Hungarian novels ": " Song of the wheat fields " (1927 ) or the historical novel " the golden coffin " (1932 ), which connects the description of time-dependent and timeless human destinies against the background of the reign of Emperor Diocletian.
"His lyrical style, his conscious language arts, his extensive education and personal integrity, his constant struggle for social justice, the ... power of his humor made him one of the most loved - even if not the most sophisticated - writer Hungary most of his. life's work form his stories with their rich variety of topics. "
In 1904 his career at the Museum of Szeged, which functioned as a library began. From 1917 until his death in 1934 he was the director of this museum, which is now named after him and the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Szeged ( SZTE ) home.