Tamás Kóbor

Born Adolf Bermann in Pozsony (now Bratislava) in 1867, he later became known as Kóbor Tamás. He studied law for a time, worked at the Hungarian General Credit Bank, and then moved into journalism and literature, beginning his writing career around A Hét, the influential literary weekly connected with his brother-in-law, the poet József Kiss.

He went on to write for major Budapest newspapers including Magyar Hírlap, Pesti Napló, Pesti Hírlap, and Az Újság. Alongside his journalism, he published many novels and story collections, among them Aszfalt, Budapest, and A tisztesség nevében. His fiction is especially noted for its picture of big-city life and for its portrayal of assimilation within the Jewish bourgeois world of Budapest.

He is also remembered as a courageous publicist in the Horthy era. Sources describe him as one of the braver journalists of that period, and his writing often pushed against prejudice and social exclusion. He died in Budapest in 1942.