Author · Hungary
Mihály Babits
Died in 1941
Mihály Babits was born in Szekszárd on 26 November 1883. A graduate of the University of Budapest, he taught in secondary schools in Baja, Szeged, Fogaras, then Újpest and Budapest. Appointed professor at the university in 1919, he lost his chair when the Republic of Councils fell. He married Ilona Tanner, a poet under the name Sophie Török, directed the journal Nyugat from 1929 and translated the Divine Comedy. Suffering from cancer of the larynx, he died in Budapest on 4 August 1941.
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- PoetryLevelek Iris koszorújábólMihály Babits · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature