Ödön Szelényi

* Késmárk, July 12, 1877 – † Budapest, September 18, 1931 / literary historian, philosopher, university private tutor ; ; In 1900, he obtained a Hungarian-German teaching certificate from the University of Budapest. Between 1899 and 1909, he was a high school teacher in Mezőtúr, Lőcse and Késmárk. From 1909, he was a philosophy teacher at the Lutheran Theological Academy in Bratislava and then in Budapest, and from 1923, a religion teacher at the Veres Pálné High School in Budapest. In 1925, he obtained a private teaching qualification at the Tisza István University in Debrecen. Between 1927 and 1931, he edited the Protestant Theological Review. ; ; His main works: ; Goethe's Faust and Christianity, 1905; Contemporary religious currents in modern literature, 1910; Modern religious studies, 1913; The life and work of Sámuel Tessedik, 1916; The history of Hungarian Lutheran schools from the Reformation to the present day, 1917; The basic principles of education, 1922; Zola as a philosopher of religion, 1925; Hungarian pioneers of philosophical pedagogy, 1931.