Friedrich Riedl

* Ladomér, September 12, 1856 – † Budapest, August 7, 1921 / literary scholar, literary historian, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; ; son of linguist Szende Riedl. He earned a teaching degree and a doctorate in humanities from the Budapest University of Science and Technology (1879). In 1879–1881 he studied as a scholarship holder at the universities of Berlin, Paris and Vienna. Between 1881–1904 he was a teacher at the Budapest IV. District High School, and after the retirement of Pál Gyulai (1826–1909), he was a public full-time professor of Hungarian literature at the Budapest University of Science and Technology from 1904 until his death. He primarily dealt with the work of outstanding personalities of Hungarian literature (e.g. János Arany) (his work on Sándor Petőfi and Imre Madách was published after his death in 1923 and 1933, respectively). He showed that the majority of the “Kuruc era” poems and ballads published by Kálmán Thaly were written by Thaly himself. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1896. ; ; His main works: ; János Arany, 1887, ; The main directions of Hungarian literature, 1896, ; Károly Lotz’s wall paintings, 1899, Hungarians in Rome, 1900, ; Jenő Péterfy, 1901, ; Béla Lederer, 1904, ; History of Hungarian Literature, 1906 (also in German), ; Pál Gyulai, 1911, ; Shakespeare and Hungarian Literature, 1916, ; The Kuruc Ballads, 1918.