Robert Gragger

* Aranyosmarót, November 7, 1887 – November 10, 1926 / literary historian, cultural diplomat ; ; He completed his university studies in Budapest, Paris and Berlin. From 1909 he was a teacher at a secondary school, then an instructor at the Budapest Teacher Training Institute. In 1916 he became the founding director of the Berlin Hungarian Institute, and organized the teaching of Hungarian language and literature at the University of Berlin (Humboldt). In 1924 he established the Berlin Collegium Hungaricum. His enterprise, which he launched in order to popularize Hungarian science abroad, the journal Ungarische Jahrbücher and the publication Ungarische Bibliothek, were of great importance. Many of his works on comparative literary history were published in Hungarian and German journals. In 1922, he discovered the first Hungarian-language poem, the Old Hungarian Mária-siralom, in the Latin-language Leuven Codex. The codex became the property of the Hungarian state in 1982, primarily thanks to István Muzslay (1923–2007), a Jesuit priest and professor of economics at the Catholic University of Leuven.