Paul Fendt

* Znojmo, 1898. Apr. 7. – † ? / translator, editor ; ; He graduated from the Selmecbánya Lyceum, then was taken prisoner of war during the First World War. He earned a degree in pharmacy from the German University in Prague (1924), after which he worked in his profession. In 1941 he was sentenced to prison for communist activities. In 1944 he participated in the Slovak National Uprising, as a member of the revolutionary government he was the head of the health ministry, from 1945 he was the deputy of the Slovak health commissioner, later he was the head of the department. From 1950 he was the editor of the Hungarian Library operating within the Pravda Publishing House, from 1953–1955 he was the director and editor-in-chief of the Czechoslovak Hungarian Publishing House, from 1955 until his retirement (1958) he was the head of the Hungarian editorial office of the Slovak Fine Arts Publishing House. He did significant organizational work in the launch and development of domestic Hungarian book publishing after the Second World War. ; ; Translations: Ludvík Aškenázy: German Awakening, 1952, reprinted: The Flame-Eyed, 1954, Jiøí Hanzelka–Miroslav Zikmund: Africa in the World of Dreams and in Reality (with Lőrinc Szőke and Tibor Tóth), 1954, reprinted: Argentina is beyond the River, 1956, reprinted: Across the Cordilleras, 1958. ;

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