Ferenc Toldy

Toldy Ferenc ( Franz Karl Joseph Schedel originally ) ( born August 10, 1805 in Oven, † December 10, 1875 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian -born German literary historian.

His parents, the royal officials Franz Schedel and his wife Josepha Thal Lord sent him for a year in the city Cegléd, where he attended the Hungarian high school and learned the Hungarian language.

Toldy studied medicine, then practiced for some time as a district doctor in plague, but soon turned to literature to where he had started early ( mainly translations) to work.

After a journey that took him to Berlin, London and Paris in 1830 returned, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy in 1835 and also its secretary. This office he held until 1861. From 1833 to 1844 he taught as an associate professor of dietetics at the University of Pest. In 1836 he founded the Kisfaludy Society. From 1843 until a year before his death he was director of the University Library of Budapest. In 1861 he was appointed professor of Hungarian literature at the university to plague.

His main works are: Handbook of Hungarian poetry ( Pest 1828), by which the Hungarian poetry was first introduced in a more comprehensive manner in the German literature; then in Hungarian the unfinished history of the Hungarian national literature ( Pest 1851-53 ) and history of Hungarian poetry: from ancient times to Alex d. Kisfaludy ( plague of 1854 by German Steinacker, 1863).

According to him, the famous Budapest Toldy Ferenc High School in Buda Castle ( Vár ) is named, which was originally a main secondary school.