Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel (16 June 1908 – 3 June 1970) was a Hungarian classical scholarRttook, Zsigmund. (1997
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. Trencsényi-Waldapfel studied the history of religion, philosophy, and epics. He was a specialist in ancient mythology including the Danae-myth, Golden Age myths, the Hesiodic prooemia, the

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of Central Asia, particularly the Kazakh epics and the Christopher legend. His scholarship combined Greek, Latin and Oriental sources together with

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to tell the story.

Selected publications

*''Erasmus és magyar barátai'', Officina, Budapest, 1941. *''Humanizmus és nemzeti irodalom'', Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1966. *''Mitológia'', Gondolat, Budapest, 1968.

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20th-century Hungarian historians Academic staff of the University of Szeged Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Writers from Budapest 1908 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Hungarian male writers Hungarian classical scholars {{Hungary-historian-stub