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Géza Gárdonyi

Died in 1922

Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler in Agárdpuszta on 3 August 1863, graduated from the teacher training college in Eger and taught for some years as a schoolteacher. A journalist from the mid-1880s, he became known for the satirical letters of Göre Gábor on rural life, which he later disowned. Married in 1885, he separated from his wife in 1892. In 1897 he settled in Eger with his mother and lived there in seclusion until his death on 30 October 1922; on his grave he had these words engraved: “Only his body”.

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