Gyula Farkas

Deceased Person

1894 – 1958

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Who was Gyula Farkas?

Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas was a Hungarian literary historian and Finno-Ugric linguist.

In the 1920s he was a coworker of Robert Gragger at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.

During World War II he was head of the German-Hungarian Society.

He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the University of Göttingen in 1947.

He wrote over 19 books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian.

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Born
Sep 27, 1894
Died
Jul 12, 1958

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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