Zsolt Alszeghy

* Nagyszombat, February 12, 1888 – † Budapest, January 14, 1970 / literary historian, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1947) ; ; He earned a doctorate in humanities from the Budapest University of Science and Technology in 1909 and a teaching degree in 1910. He was a state high school teacher in Gyöngyös and Budapest, where he later worked in the training high school of the Teacher Training Institute, and in 1935 he earned a university private teacher qualification. He was a professor of literary history at the College of Fine Arts, and a professor at the Budapest University of Science and Technology between 1935 and 1949. He held several academic positions: secretary of the Hungarian Literary History Society (1921–1937), editor of the Irodalomgörténet c. journal, was the president of the Literary History Society (1941–1949). He edited the weekly literary magazine Élet (1924–1935). He researched areas of our literature that had been largely unexplored until then (our oldest dramatic monuments, school dramas, the Latin and Hungarian literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, the little-known chapters of Hungarian poetry from the 16th century to the present day). His collected text editions with introductions are very significant: Hungarian Dramatic Memories from the Middle Ages to Bessenyei, 1914, Csíksomlyó School Dramas (with Ferenc Szlávik), 1914. He carried out important work as a textbook writer; his secondary school Hungarian language and literature textbooks written with Sándor Sík and Frigyes Brisits were used from the 1920s to 1948. He was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1947, but after the communist takeover he was stripped of his academic membership in 1949, and was only reinstated (posthumously) in 1989. ; ; His main works: ; The Life and Writings of János Illei, 1908, ; Latin Jesuit Dramas on a Hungarian Subject, 1911, ; Funeral Hymns of the Hungarian Reformation and Anti-Reformation, 1916, ; Hungarian Lyricists, 1921, ; The Artistic Work, 1922, ; Hungarian Literature of the 19th Century, 1923, ; Hungarian Lyric Poetry of the 17th Century, 1935, ; Is Our Literature So-Called "Nationless Age"?, 1942, ; The Hungarian Relatives of the Noble Man Faludi, 1943.