Gyula Juhász (4 April 1883,
Szeged
Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ...
– 6 April 1937, Szeged) was a
Hungarian poet, who was awarded the
Baumgarten Prize The Baumgarten Prize was founded by Ferenc Ferdinánd Baumgarten on October 17, 1923. It was awarded every year from 1929 to 1949 (except for 1945). In its time, it was the most prestigious literary prize awarded by Hungary and is considered as equ ...
.
His first poems were published in in 1899. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a student of the
University of Budapest
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, where he met
Mihály Babits
Mihály Babits (; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological pro ...
and
Dezső Kosztolányi
Dezső Kosztolányi (; March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used ...
.
Throughout his life, Juhász made multiple suicide attempts. He eventually died after overdosing on his headache relief medicine, in 1937.
1883 births
1937 deaths
People from Szeged
Hungarian male poets
Eötvös Loránd University alumni
19th-century Hungarian poets
19th-century Hungarian male writers
Baumgarten Prize winners
Hungarian writers who committed suicide
1937 suicides
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