Ferenc Toldy (born Franz Karl Joseph Schedel, August 10, 1805, in

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- December 10, 1875, in

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) was a Hungarian

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Biography

As a small boy, he lived with his parents, Franz Schedel and Josepha Thalherr, in Buda. He was sent to school in

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. He studied medicine and practised as a doctor in Pest, but his interest in literature absorbed his attention, and he published a handbook on Hungarian poetry in 1828. He travelled to Berlin, London, and Paris, returning in 1830. From 1833 to 1844 he was a professor of dietetics at Pest University, and in 1836 helped found the

Kisfaludy Society The Kisfaludy Society (Hungarian: ''Kisfaludy Társaság'') was a literary society in Pest, founded in 1836 and named after Károly Kisfaludy, who had died in 1830. It held monthly meetings and was a major force in Hungarian literary life, givin ...

. He changed his name to Toldy in 1846. He had used it as a pseudonym from the beginning of his career. He had already joined the Hungarian Academy, becoming its Secretary in 1835. He remained in this role until 1861 when he was appointed Professor of Hungarian Literature. His lastingly influential works were published in the 1850s and 1860s.

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* ''Handbuch der ungrischen Poësie.'' Pest, 1828
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Toldy Ferenc Gimnázium
—high school in Budapest named after him
Ceglédi Toldy Ferenc Kórház Honlapja
��hospital in Cegléd {{DEFAULTSORT:Toldy Ferenc Hungarian literary critics Hungarian literary historians Hungarian-German people People from Buda 1805 births 1875 deaths