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Andor Kapos
A Hungarian writer and journalist who also published under the name Artúr Földes, he is remembered for sharp dramatic writing from the early 20th century. His surviving work points to a keen interest in everyday authority, family tension, and the pressures of social life.
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A tanító / Pompei utolsó éje
by Andor Kapos, Ákos Horváth
About the author
Born in 1881 and deceased in 1944, Andor Kapos was a Hungarian author connected with early 20th-century literary and journalistic life. Hungarian sources identify Kapos Andor as a pen name used by Artúr Földes, whose writing appeared in the newspaper Világ and who later left Hungary for Berlin with his family in late 1922.
For readers today, Kapos is chiefly associated with A tanító (The Teacher), a one-act play published together with Ákos Horváth's Pompeji utolsó éje in the Modern Könyvtár series in 1911. The play's continued circulation through library and public-domain editions suggests a writer drawn to character, conflict, and the moral strain of ordinary life.
Reliable biographical detail in easily accessible English sources is limited, so some parts of his life remain lightly documented in broad public references. Still, the available record places him among Hungarian literary figures of his era whose work moved between journalism and drama.