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Lajos Kuthy
1813–1864
A once-fashionable Hungarian novelist and dramatist, he moved through the political and literary worlds of the 1840s and left behind fiction known for its vivid social detail. His career mixed literary ambition, public service, and the turbulence of a changing Hungary.
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Hazai rejtelmek: Regény (2. kötet)
by Lajos Kuthy
Hazai rejtelmek: Regény (1. kötet)
by Lajos Kuthy
About the author
Born on January 9, 1813, in Érmihályfalva, Lajos Kuthy became a Hungarian novelist and playwright, and he was later elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as well as a member of the Kisfaludy Society.
He first studied for the ministry, then turned toward law and public life. Sources on his life note that he took part in a youth political movement in the 1830s, was imprisoned for about a year, and later worked in close contact with leading reform-era figures, including Count Lajos Batthyány. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, he also held government posts.
Kuthy was one of the better-known literary names of the 1840s, admired in his time for novels and dramas that captured society and public life. He died in Nagyvárad on August 27, 1864.