author
Zsigmond Bodnár
1839–1907
A restless 19th-century Hungarian thinker, critic, and literary historian, he tried to build a grand philosophical system and bring those ideas into literary debate. His work captures the intellectual energy and arguments of Hungary in the decades after the 1867 Compromise.
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Az erkölcsi világ
by Zsigmond Bodnár
Az erkölcsi törvény alkalmazása
by Zsigmond Bodnár
About the author
Born on February 9, 1839, in Nagykároly (today Carei), Zsigmond Bodnár became known as a Hungarian literary historian, critic, and philosopher. He died on August 24, 1907, in Csillaghegy.
Bodnár was an ambitious, system-building writer. Literary histories of the period describe him as one of the most characteristic theorists of Hungary's liberal petty-bourgeois world after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. He worked not only as a critic and literary historian, but also tried to ground those fields in a broader philosophy of history and culture.
He is especially remembered for his large-scale studies of Hungarian literature and for the forceful, argumentative mind behind them. Even when later readers disagreed with his ideas, his writing remained a vivid part of Hungarian intellectual life at the end of the 19th century.