Miksa Fenyő, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miksa Fenyő

Hungarian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1877

Place of Birth: Mélykút, Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1972

Profession: writer, politician, editor-in-chief, journalist, publisher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Miksa Fenyo (December 8, 1877 – April 4, 1972) was a Hungarian writer and intellectual, served as a member of parliament (elected 1931) in the early 1930s, and was appointed as a Minister of Trade and Commerce under the short-lived (24 hours) government cabinet of Prime Minister János Hadik in 1918. He was also mentor and friend to Hungary's second most important poet laureate (Endre Ady), co-founded the most important periodical in Hungarian literature (Nyugat: "West"), and was an instrumental figure in the Hungarian Federation of Industrialists (GYOSZ) prior to World War II and its last managing director during the brief interlude between 1945 and 1947, whereafter he was forced to flee into exile out of concerns for his personal safety after being informed that Stalin wanted him and other petit-bourgeoise to be sent to Siberia.