Hugó Meltzl of Lomnitz (31 July 1846 – 20 January 1908) was a Hungarian scholar who was a professor at, and later rector of, the Franz Joseph University.

Life

Hugó Meltzl was born in

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(now

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). His native language was

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. He studied at the University of Kolozsvár and in

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. He was appointed as professor of German (later French, Italian) history and language of the newly founded Franz Joseph University. From 1880 to 1889 he was the leader of the Faculty, then in 1894 he became the rector of the university. He was abroad at several times, including visiting

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. One of his major successes was that he made well known the works of

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and József Eötvös in abroad. He was an honorary member of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift of

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, the

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of Philadelphia, the

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(elected 1886), the Akademisch-Philosophischer Verein of

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and the Scientific Aceademy and Petőfi Institute of

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. Between 1877 and 1888, with Sámuel Brassai he was the co-editor and publisher of the multilingual ''Összehasonlító Irodalomtörténeti Lapokat'' (''Acta Comparationis Litt. et Fontes Compar. Litt. Universarum''). He signed as Hugó Lomnitzi. He died on 20 January 1908 in

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(now

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), and was buried in Kolozsvár (

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). He had a wife, called Hermine Berger.

References

Sources

* * * Kozma Dezső: Meltzl Hugó és a magyar irodalom (in Hungarian), '' Korunk'' 3. folyam, 20. évf. 10. sz. (2009. október
Online access

PIM

Further information

* Bányai Elemér: Meltzl Hugó (in Hungarian), ''Nyugat'', 1908. 3. szám

* T. Szabó Levente: Negotiating world literature in the first international journal of comparative literary studies. The Albanian case, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologica 2012/2, 33–52. * T. Szabó Levente: À la recherche... de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies = Storia, Identita e Canoni letterari, eds. Angela Tarantino, Ioana Bot, Ayșe Saraçgil, Florence University Press, 2013, 177–188. (Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna 19.) * T. Szabó Levente: Negotiating the borders of Hungarian national literature: the beginnings of the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum and the rise of Hungarian studies (Hungarologie), Transylvanian Review 2013/1. Supplement (Mapping Literature), 47–61. * T. Szabó Levente: Az összehasonlító irodalomtudomány kelet-európai feltalálása és beágyazottsága. Az Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum – egy kutatás keretei = “...hogy legyen a víznek lefolyása...” Köszöntő kötet Szilágyi N. Sándor tiszteletére, ed. Benő Attila et al., 2013, 449–460. * T. Szabó Levente: Mit tegyünk az első nemzetközi összehasonlító irodalomtudományi lappal? Szempontok az Összehasonlító Irodalomtörténelmi Lapok (Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum) újraértéséhez, Literatura 2014/2, 134–147. {{DEFAULTSORT:Meltzl, Hugo 1846 births 1908 deaths People from Reghin Academic staff of Franz Joseph University Franz Joseph University alumni Rectors of the Franz Joseph University Members of the American Philosophical Society Rectors of universities in Austria-Hungary