Sándor Reményik

Born on 30 August 1890 in Kolozsvár, then part of Austria-Hungary and now Cluj-Napoca, Sándor Reményik grew up in a well-off family; his father was an architect. He began studying law after finishing school, but an eye illness forced him to give up that path, and he turned instead to literature.

Reményik went on to become one of the leading poets of Hungarian literature in Transylvania between the First and Second World Wars. He lived closely tied to his native city, wrote for Transylvanian Hungarian journals, and from 1921 served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Pásztortűz. He also wrote under the pen name Végvári.

His poems often join personal feeling with faith, moral seriousness, and concern for the fate of the Hungarian community in Transylvania. During his lifetime he received important literary recognition, and although his reputation changed after 1945, he is now widely remembered as a distinctive and influential poet. He died in Kolozsvár on 24 October 1941.