Tamás Kóbor

Born in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1867, he was originally named Adolf Bermann and later wrote under the name Tamás Kóbor. After studying law, he worked at the Hungarian General Credit Bank before moving into literary journalism, beginning his writing career around the influential journal A Hét, which was edited by his brother-in-law, the poet József Kiss.

Kóbor became known as both an author and a publicist. Reference sources describe him as a Hungarian writer and journalist, and note that his novels portrayed the assimilation of the Jewish middle class in Budapest. That interest in the city and its social changes helped make his work a lively record of urban Hungarian life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He died in Budapest in 1942. Today he is remembered for fiction and journalism that connect personal stories with the wider cultural shifts of his time.