József Turóczi-Trsotler

* Moskóc, October 1, 1888 – † Budapest, April 6, 1962 / literary historian, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1947) ; ; He obtained his teaching diploma at the University of Budapest. From 1913 he was a teacher at the Temesvár High School, in 1918 he was a lecturer at the Ministry of Religion and Public Education in Budapest, and during the Soviet Republic he was a professor at the Department of World Literature at the University of Budapest. After the fall of the Soviet Republic he was stripped of his chair. Between 1920 and 1944 he was a teacher at the Jewish Girls' Gymnasium in Budapest, from 1939 he was its deputy director and a colleague at Pester Lloyd. In addition to his educational work, he was engaged in scientific activities. His articles and studies were published in literary journals. From 1945 he was a full professor of comparative literary history at the University of Budapest, and from 1949 until his death he was the head of the department of German language and literary history. He edited the foreign-language journal Acta Litteraria. Of world literature, he was mainly interested in German literature (Goethe, Heine, Lenau, Th. Mann). Other areas of his research include Hungarian-German cultural relations, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism. In 1934 he received the Baumgarten Prize. He did much to spread Petőfi's reputation abroad as a poet, and was the editor of the first modern ; German-language Petőfi anthology. He also translated works (Chamisso, Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hauptmann ; etc.). ; ; His main works: ; E. T. A. Hoffmann meséi, 1911, ; Goethe Wilhelm Meisterének óslakja, 1912, ; György Dózsa in 17th century German literature, 1913, ; Péter Vajda and German romanticism, 1913, ; Hungarian elements in 17th century German literature, 1914, 1916, ; To the German subject history of Ban Bánk, 1917, ; A chapter from the history of Hungarian literary history research, 1920, ; On the causes of many corruptions in the countries, 1930, ; Hungarian Cartesians, 1933, ; The discovery of the Hungarian language, 1933, ; The sources of Hungarian intellectual life in the 16th and 17th centuries, 1933, ; The first forms of the Europeanization of the Hungarian spirit, 1934, ; The Europeanization of Hungarian literature, 1946, ; Realism and literary history, 1946, ; Petőfi in World Literature, 1955; Hungarian World Literature I–II. (with a bibliography of his works), 1961.