Farkas Gyula de Kisbarnak, or Julius von Farkas de Kisbarnak ( hu, kisbarnaki Farkas Gyula (27 September 1894, in Kismarton/

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, Sopron megye – 12 July 1958, in

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) was a Hungarian literary historian and

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Biography

He was born into the

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n Hungarian noble family Farkas de Kisbarnak. His father was Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak (1849–1937), captain of the Hungarian Royal army, notary of

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and his mother was Gizella Pottyondy de Potyond und Csáford (1864–1921). His paternal grandfather was Farkas Ferenc de Kisbarnak (1820–1882), administrator of the states of

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, property of the county Esterházys, and his paternal grandmother was Cecília Hoffmann (1826–1907). His maternal grandparents were dr. Ágoston Pottyondy de Potyond et Csáford, lawyer, and Mária Grohmann (1840-1918). His paternal uncle was Gyula Farkas de Kisbarnak (1847–1930), Hungarian

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and

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. His brother was

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak ( Hungarian: vitéz kisbarnaki Farkas Ferenc; May 27, 1892 – April 14, 1980) was Chief Scout of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, commanding officer of the Royal Ludovica Military Academy, the country's officer training sc ...

, General of the Hungarian VI Army Corps during

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. In the 1920s Gyula was a coworker of Robert Gragger (1887–1926) at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.
During

he was head of the ''German-Hungarian Society''.
He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the

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in 1947. He wrote over nineteen books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian.WorldCat
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Literary works

* ''Die Entwicklung der ungarischen Literatur'', 1934 * ''Der ungarische Vormärz Petöfis Zeitalter.'' 1943 (held in 13 US libraries) * ''Geschichte der ungarischen Literaturwissenschaft'', 1944

References

* "The Sign of a Story" review of Petra Török's (ed) 'A határ és a határolt. A magyar irodalom létformáiról he Boundary and the Bounded Off: Meditations on the Miodes of Being of Hungarian Literature. ''Budapest Review of Books'', 3 February 1999

("a very thorough account of the relations between Gyula Farkas...") Linguists from Hungary Hungarian literary historians Linguists of Indo-European languages Hungarian Finno-Ugrists People from Eisenstadt 1894 births 1958 deaths 20th-century linguists {{Hungary-linguist-stub