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Dávid Angyal
1857–1943
A major Hungarian historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he wrote with a broad humanistic range that also reached into literary criticism and teaching. His work helped shape historical scholarship in Hungary between the world wars.
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Tanulmányok
by Dávid Angyal
About the author
Born in Kunszentmárton on November 30, 1857, and originally known as Engel Dávid, he became known as one of Hungary’s notable historians, literary historians, critics, and university teachers. Sources describe him as an important figure in the liberal-conservative, positivist tradition of Hungarian historical writing, especially in the period between the two world wars.
He was also connected with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he was a member and served as secretary. Alongside his historical studies, he took part in scholarly publishing and teaching, building a reputation not only as a historian but as a careful interpreter of literature and culture.
Dávid Angyal died in Budapest on December 18, 1943. Though not widely known in English today, he appears in Hungarian and academic reference sources as a significant scholar of his generation.