Baron Lajos Dóczi, aka Dóczy ( hu, Dóczi Lajos, báró, german: Ludwig (Louis) Dóczy (born "''

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''"), 29/30 November 1845,

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(Oedenburg) - 28 August 1918,

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) was a

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(later

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) Hungarian

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. His father, Adolf Dux, was a wine trader, and is not to be confused with the writer of the same name, Adolf Dux. After finishing his preliminary education he studied law in

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, joining at the same time the staff of ''

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''. His political articles, which advocated the "

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" (agreement) with Austria, were very favorably received, and on the recommendation of Balthasar Horváth, then

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, he was appointed (1868) clerk in the office of the

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. When Count Julius Andrássy became

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(1872) Dóczy accompanied him to Vienna, and was soon appointed " Sectionsrath", and later " Hofrath", at the

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. In 1899 he was elevated to the rank of

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, and in 1902 retired from public life. He resided in

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and Budapest. Dóczy's reputation rests not on the services he rendered to the state, but on his achievements as a dramatic writer and as a translator. ''Csók'' (''The Kiss''), his best-known comedy, which is played in German as well as in Hungarian theaters, gained the prize of the Hungarian Academy in 1871; the German translation was made by the author himself. Among his other plays are: * ''Utolsó Szerelem'' (Last Love), 1879 * ''Széchy Mária'', 1886 * ''Vegyes: Párok'' (Mixed Marriages), 1889 * ''Vera Grófnő'', 1891 * ''Ellinor Királyleány'', tragedy, 1897 Besides these he translated Schauffert's comedy ''Schach dem König'', 1873, and wrote the

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's ''

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'' and to Johann Strauss II.'s '' Ritter Pázmán''. His Hungarian translation of

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's ''

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'' and his German adaptation of

Imre Madách Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is ''The Tragedy of Man'' (''Az ember tragédiája'', 1861). It is a dramatic poem appro ...

's ''

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'' (German: ''Die Tragödie des Menschen'') were well received. His collected poems and novels appeared in 1890. His last work was a Hungarian translation of

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's poems (1902).

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and

Ludwig Venetianer Ludwig Venetianer ( hu, Venetianer Lajos) (May 19, 1867 in Kecskemét – November 25, 1922 in Újpest) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian rabbi and writer. Venetianer was born in Kecskemét. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the Eötvö ...

and in turn cites:'' ** József Szinnyei (hu), ''Magyar Irók Élete''

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