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Gereben Vas
1823–1868
A lively 19th-century Hungarian storyteller, he wrote with warmth about everyday people and became one of the best-known popular prose writers of the years after the 1848 revolution.
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Nagy idők, nagy emberek: Regény
by Gereben Vas
About the author
Born József Radákovits in Fürged on April 7, 1823, this Hungarian writer, journalist, and trained lawyer became widely known under the pen name Vas Gereben. He died in Vienna on January 26, 1868.
He is remembered for fiction, anecdotes, and social sketches rooted in Hungarian everyday life, with a strong feel for village and middle-class worlds. Contemporary and later accounts describe him as one of the most popular Hungarian storytellers of the period after the 1848–49 War of Independence, often mentioned alongside Mór Jókai.
His writing is often noted for its closeness to folk life and older social customs, which gives his work an inviting, lived-in quality for modern readers interested in 19th-century Hungary.