Adolf Dux ( hu, Dux Adolf; 25 October 1822, Pozsony – 20 November 1881,

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) was a Hungarian

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writer and journalist. A cousin of

Leopold Dukes Leopold Dukes ( hu, Dukes Lipót; 17 January 1810, Pozsony – 3 August 1891, Vienna) was a Hungarian critic of Jewish literature. Biography Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his researches in the Bodleian Library and the British ...

, Dux studied law and philosophy at the

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, and was connected with the ''Pressburger Zeitung'' until 1855, when he became a correspondent for ''

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''. He translated Sándor Petőfi's and Josef Eötvös'

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, and Katona's tragedy, '' Bank Ban''. He wrote '' Aus Ungarn'' as well as various stories in

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under the title ''Deutsch-Ungarisches''.

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