Kálmán Tóth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kálmán Tóth

Hungarian poet

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1831

Place of Birth: Baja, Hungary

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1881

Profession: poet, politician, journalist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Kálmán Tóth

  • Kálmán Tóth (1831–1881) was a Hungarian poet.
  • He was born in Baja.
  • The main theme of his poetry was love. He studied at the Franciscan Gymnasium (now Béla III High School) in Baja between 1839 and 1845.
  • Tóth was the best student in his class.
  • He was a novice for a short time, but then started to study law.
  • He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. After the failure of the revolution, he tried to raise national self-confidence and to cherish the ideals of the revolution.
  • He remembered its heroes in his poetry.
  • He became the sub-editor of Ignác Nagy's Hölgyfutár (English: Ladies' Courier).
  • He was the accountable editor of it between 1856 and 1861. In 1860, Tóth launched a political newspaper, Bolond Miska (English: Crazy Michael).
  • From 1864 he was the editor of the Fovárosi Lapok (English: Metropolitan Pages).
  • His writing was regularly published, and his dramas were performed at the Hungarian National Theatre in Budapest. . Tóth was elected to be the parliamentary delegate of his home town in 1865.
  • Through four sessions he fought for revolutionary ideas in the Parliament.
  • Tóth took part in raising Baja to be a city with municipal rights, and helped to found Eötvös József College.
  • He also demanded that Baja be connected to the national rail system (now Hungarian State Railways, Hungarian: MÉV). He lost his seat in the 1878 general election.
  • The frustration of it caused him to lose his mind, and he died at the age of sixty. The city of Baja has erected a monument in his honour, at Kálmán Tóth Square.

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