Ferenc Mező, also known as Grünfeld (March 13, 1885 – November 21, 1961), was a
Hungarian poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
. He was born in
Pölöskefő
Pölöskefő () is a village in Zala County, Hungary
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,
Zala County
Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and MeÄ ...
, and died in
Budapest
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. In 1928, he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "History of the Olympic Games".
References
Further reading
* Reményi Gyenes István: ''Ismerjük őket? Zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok'' (Ex Libris Kiadó, Budapest, 2000)
External links
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990: Mező Ferenc, Grünfeld
Életrajza a MOB honlapján
1885 births
1961 deaths
20th-century Hungarian poets
Hungarian male poets
Olympic gold medalists in art competitions
Art competitors at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Hungarian International Olympic Committee members
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
20th-century Hungarian male writers
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