John Macza

* Alsógyertyán, August 4, 1893 – † Moscow, November 14, 1974 / art historian, aesthete, writer ; ; He studied as a pharmacist, and also wrote: he published drama theory studies and theater criticism in the Ungvári Közlöny, later in the avant-garde papers of Lajos Kassák (A Tett, Ma). After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919), he emigrated to Prague, and from there to Vienna. In 1922, he was the editor of the Kassai Munkás. In 1923, he moved to Moscow. Between 1927 and 1970, he was a teacher of aesthetics at the Academy of Architecture, later at Lomonosov University. He also wrote poems. ; ; Main works: ; The classic and the new Hungarian drama, 1915, ; The Path of Modern Hungarian Drama, 1916; Full Stage, 1921; New Stage, 1922; The Art of Today's Europe, 1926; Literature and Proletariat in the West, 1926; The Creative Path of Béla Uitz, 1932; Creative Method and Artistic Heritage, 1933; Aesthetics and Revolution, 1970; Legends and Facts, 1972.