Ferenc Móra

The native form of this personal name is Móra Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.

Ferenc Móra (19 July 1879 – 8 February 1934) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist, and museologist.

Life

Ferenc Móra statue at the Szeged Pantheon

Ferenc Móra was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, into a financially poor family. His father Márton Móra was a tailor, and his mother Anna Juhász was a baker. He acquired his formal education under the most extreme hardships because of the financial poverty of his family. At the Budapest University he earned the degree of Geography and History education but worked as a teacher only for one year at Felsőlövő, Vas county. He was a prominent figure of youth literature in Hungary. His parallel career of museology started in 1904 at the combined library and museum of Szeged serving the county capital of Szeged and its surrounding Csongrád county. He was appointed as the director of the combined library and museum of Szeged and Csongrád county in 1917 and served in that post as director until 1934, when he died, aged 54, at Szeged. Today the museum is named in his honor as the "Móra Ferenc Muzeum" which can be seen on the internet at many websites.[1][2][3][4]

Major literary works

Ferenc Móra Museum in Szeged

Notes

  1. ↑ "Móra Ferenc Múzeum". Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Múzeum - Móra Ferenc Múzeum - Museum.hu". Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Szeged Megyei Jogú Város Polgármesteri Hivatala
  4. ↑ Magyarország a hálón - vendégváró.hu

See also

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