Frigyes Riedl

Frigyes Riedl

Frigyes Riedl (September 12, 1856 in Ladomér – August 7, 1921 in Budapest) was a prominent Hungarian essayist, critic and literary historian. His most famous work is Arany János (1887), the earliest study of poet János Arany.[1][2] He is also noted for his books on eighteenth- and nineteeth-century Hungarian literature, and for A History of Hungarian Literature (1906), which was intended as a primer for English-speaking audiences unfamiliar with Hungarian literature.[3] He was a professor of Hungarian literature at the University of Budapest and a regular contributor to the literary review Budapesti Szemle.[4] With other Hungarian literary figures, especially Jenõ Péterfy, he tried to establish unique criteria for Hungarian literary criticism.[5]

References

  1. ^ Neubauer, John; Cornis-Pope, Marcel, eds. (2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. J. Benjamins. pp. 252–253. ISBN 9789027234520.
  2. ^ Szili, József (1997). "The global comparatist (A few 'do it'-s)". Neohelicon. 24 (2): 71–78.
  3. ^ Demaitre, Ann (1971). "Review of A travers siècles et frontières by J. Waldapfel and A History of Hungarian Literature by F. Riedl". Comparative Literature Studies. 8 (2): 175–179.
  4. ^ Lukacs, John (1990). Budapest 1900 A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802132505.
  5. ^ Neubauer & Cornis-Pope 2004, p. 336.
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