Laszlo Dobossy, Csuczor

* Vágfarkasd, August 9, 1910 – † Budapest, January 27, 1999 / literary historian, translator, lexicographer ; ; He graduated from the Érsekújvár Realgymnázium, then spent a year in Paris, at the Sorbonne University. Upon returning home, he studied French-Hungarian at the Charles University in Prague, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1936. As a leftist, he became one of the founders of the Sickle and maintained close ties with Czech left-wing intellectuals. Between 1936 and 1939, he taught at the Hungarian Gymnasium in Košice. From the autumn of 1939, he stayed in France as a scholarship holder at the University of Paris, where he became involved in the resistance movement. Between 1945 and 1950, he was the scientific director and then director general of the Hungarian Institute in Paris. Between 1950 and 1957, he taught at the Faculty of Foreign Affairs, and between 1957 and 1980, at the Department of Slavic Philology at ELTE, as an associate professor, later as a professor. As a literary historian, he primarily dealt with French and Czech literature. He wrote the first comprehensive history of French literature in Hungarian, and published two monographs on Romain Rolland. As a bohemian, his most significant work is the Czech–Hungarian Dictionary I-II. (1960), and he also edited several anthologies of the works of French and Czech writers and poets. ; ; His main works: ; Karel Čapek, 1961, ; Romain Rolland, the Man and the Writer, 1961, Hašek's World, 1963, ; The History of French Literature III., 1963, ; The Central European Man, 1973, ; Crises and changes, 1989.