József Vészi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

József Vészi

Hungarian journalist

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1858

Place of Birth: Arad, Arad County, Romania

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1940

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About József Vészi

  • József Vészi, Hungarian writer, journalist, poet, translator, editor and deputy; born at Arad 6 November 1858, died 1940.
  • He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and studied philosophy, literature, and languages at Budapest.
  • In his early youth he was a poet, and in the 1870s his lyrical productions were accepted by the best literary periodicals, while two volumes of his verses were published at Budapest in 1880 under the titles A Bánat Dalaiból and Traviata, Dalok Egy Tévedt Nohöz.
  • Since 1877 he devoted himself to journalism, advocating liberal views.
  • He was for some time editor of the Budapester Tagblatt, and contributed leaders and stories to the Pester Lloyd.
  • In 1894 he became editor-in-chief of the Pesti Napló, and in 1896 he founded the Budapesti Napló. Vészi was president of the journalistic club of Budapest, and vice-president of the picture salon and of the club of amateur musicians in that city.
  • He was also master of the masonic lodge "Reform." In 1899 he was elected to the Hungarian Parliament from the district of Szászsebes (Sebes); and in 1901, from the third district of the capital.
  • He took an active interest in all Jewish affairs. The most enduring feat of his career, however, was his discovery of new talent.
  • He brought the poet Endre Ady to Budapest and secured both a livelihood and the possibility of publication for him; it was to Vészi’s daughter, Margit — later the wife of Ferenc Molnár — that Ady wrote the poem cycle Margitta élni aka (Margitta Wants to Live; 1912); Vészi’s other daughter was married to the writer Lajos Bíró.
  • Details of the autobiography of his granddaughter, Márta Molnár (poet György Sárközi’s wife), paint a lively picture of the colorful bourgeois Jewish salons in Budapest.

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