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Zsigmond Justh
1863–1894
A striking late-19th-century Hungarian writer, he moved between aristocratic society and artistic circles while writing fiction and plays with a modern, psychological edge. His life was brief, but his work helped bring French-influenced naturalism into Hungarian literature.
2 Audiobooks
Fuimus
by Zsigmond Justh
A pénz legendája; Gányó Julcsa
by Zsigmond Justh
About the author
Born on February 16, 1863, in Pusztaszenttornya, Zsigmond Justh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and theater director. He came from a landowning family and studied law and economics in Hungary and abroad before turning seriously to literature.
He began writing with encouragement from the poet Reviczky Gyula, and his early work is often linked to the influence of French naturalism. He became known for novels and plays that explored society, inner life, and the changing world of the Hungarian gentry, while also taking an active interest in theater.
Justh died young in Cannes, France, on October 9, 1894, at only 31. Even so, he remains a memorable figure in Hungarian literary history, especially for the way he connected Hungarian writing with wider European, and particularly French, literary culture.