László Beöthy

Born in Komárom on May 1, 1826, he became known as a Hungarian humorist and novelist. He studied law, and during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49 he served as a military judicial officer.

After the defeat of the revolution, he worked in Pest and joined literary life there. Reference sources describe him as both a novelist and a writer of humor, placing him among the notable Hungarian prose writers of his generation.

His life was short: he died in Pest on May 20, 1857, at just 31. Even so, his name has remained in Hungarian literary reference works, which remember him for the energy and wit of his writing.