József Balogh (12 June 1893 – 2 April (?) 1944) was a Hungarian publicist,

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, and literary historian.

Biography

József Balogh's original family name was Blum. It was due to his father Ármin, the history and literature teacher at the

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, that he adopted the Hungarian name, Balogh. It was Ármin's connection to the Kornfeld financial family that led Balogh to build an intimate friendship with his future patron Móric Kornfeld, a son-in-law of the industrialist Manfréd Weiss. Both Balogh and Kornfeld converted to

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. Balogh's main contribution was the creation of ''The Hungarian Quarterly''.

Works

* Vasa lecta et pretiosa: Szent Ágoston konfessziói, egy stílustörténeti tanulmány vázlata (1918) * Voces Paginarum: Beiträge zur Geschichte des lauten Lesens und Schreibens (1927) * A klasszikus műveltségért (1934)

References

*(English) Frank, Tibor, "Editing as Politics. József Balogh and The Hungarian Quarterly", in ''The Hungarian Quarterly'' 34 (1993), No. 129, pp. 5–13. *(English) Demeter, Tamás, "From Classical Studies Towards Epistemology. The Work of József Balogh", in "Studies in East European Thought" 51st Vol. (1999), Issue 4, pp. 287–305 *(Hungarian) Frank, Tibor, "A patrisztikától a politikáig. Balogh József (1893–1944)", "Erdei, Gyöngyi/Nagy, Balázs (Hgg.): Változatok a történelemre.Tanulmányok Székely György tiszteletére. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum", Budapest 2004, , pp. 391–404. *(English) Széchenyi, Ágnes, "Introduction", in Kornfeld, Móric's ''Reflections on Twentieth Century Hungary. A Hungarian Magnate's View.'' Social Science Monographs, Boulder 2007, , pp. 1–94

External links

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Biografie
in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon 1000-1990 *
József Balogh
in the database of the Budapest Holocaust Memorial Center

References

1893 births 1944 deaths Hungarian Jews 20th-century Hungarian journalists Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Hungarian philologists {{Hungary-writer-stub