author
Zsolt Beöthy
1848–1922
A major voice in Hungarian literary criticism, he helped shape how generations of readers understood their national literature. His work joined scholarship, teaching, and cultural leadership at the center of Hungary’s literary life.
3 Audiobooks
Kálozdy Béla: Regény (2. kötet)
by Zsolt Beöthy
Kálozdy Béla: Regény (1. kötet)
by Zsolt Beöthy
A tragikum
by Zsolt Beöthy
About the author
Born in Buda on September 4, 1848, and dying in Budapest on April 18, 1922, Zsolt Beöthy was a Hungarian literary historian, critic, aesthete, and university professor. He became an important public figure in Hungarian letters and was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Beöthy taught at the University of Budapest and was also closely tied to the Kisfaludy Society, serving first as its secretary and later as its chairman. Contemporary reference sources describe him as one of the leading conservative-minded figures in Hungarian literature and literary scholarship around the turn of the twentieth century.
His writing focused on literary history, criticism, and aesthetics, and he was known for helping define literary taste and interpretation in his era. For listeners coming to his work today, he stands out as a scholar who did not stay on the sidelines: he played an active role in the institutions that shaped Hungarian cultural life.