Author · Hungary
Endre Ady
Died in 1919
Endre Ady was born in Érmindszent on 22 November 1877, into a family of impoverished Calvinist nobility. After the school at Zilah, he began studying law at Debrecen, abandoned it for journalism and wrote at Nagyvárad. In August 1903 he met Adél Brüll, a wealthy married woman whom he would call Léda in his verse. A central figure of the review Nyugat, eaten away by syphilis, he married Berta Boncza, whom he called Csinszka, in 1915, and died in Budapest on 27 January 1919.