Alexander Painter

* Szepesváralja, November 21, 1883 – † Budapest, December 30, 1944 / philologist, literary historian, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1938) ; ; Graduated from Igló. He completed his university studies in Budapest as a member of the Eötvös College. He became a doctor of humanities in 1907. Between 1907 and 1911, he taught at the state high school in Brasó, then a teacher at the Budapest practical gymnasium. He went on several study trips to England and the USA. In 1924, he moved to Graz, where he founded a boarding school. He returned to Hungary in 1934. He was a teacher at the Evangelical Gymnasium in Budapest, while at the same time he was qualified as a private teacher in the subject of English philology at the University of Budapest. In 1935, he became a teacher at the Eötvös College. From 1938 he was a public full-time professor of English language and literature at the University of Debrecen. He was one of the outstanding workers of Hungarian English philology. He edited the six volumes of the English Philological Studies he founded (1936–1944). He was the editor of several textbooks and dictionaries. In his studies, he mainly dealt with the exploration of English-Hungarian literary and historical relations. He was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on May 6, 1938. He held his chair in The Origin of Saint Margaret of Scotland on December 4, 1939. He was the victim of a bomb attack. ; ; His main works: ; English literary influences in Hungary until the advent of István Széchenyi, 1917, ; Englishmen in Hungary during the Reform Era (1825–1848), 1920, ; Additions to the history of Anglo-Hungarian contacts during the reign of the Árpád dynasty, 1937.