Miksa Falk
Miksa Falk | |
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Born | |
Died | 10 September 1908 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Occupation(s) | Politician, journalist, editor |
Miksa Falk (or sometimes Maximilian Falk, 7 October 1828 – 10 September 1908) was a Hungarian politician, journalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd.
Early life
Falk was born to an impoverished Hungarian-Jewish[1] merchant family in Pest, which was a separate town (on the east bank of the river Danube) that was later united with the towns of Buda and Óbuda (on the west bank of the river Danube) in 1873 to form Budapest, the capital of Hungary. At the age of 15, he already wrote articles for German-speaking newspapers in Pest. He studied at the Faculty of Arts in Vienna. He returned to Pest in 1848, but soon he went back to Vienna. From 1867 he lived in Hungary.
Once he was misunderstood to be the great-grandfather of Peter Falk, after the American actor mentioned that he had some Hungarian ancestors. People believed it as much as the statue of the actor's most famous role, Lt. Columbo had been set on Miksa Falk street in Budapest.[2][3][4]
Works
Initially, Falk worked for the magazine Ungar (Hungarian), then he moved to Vienna.[5] He started to write articles at the newspaper Oesterreichische Zeitung, but when the newspaper was banned, he went to work for the newspaper Wanderer. In Hungary, he had articles in Pesti Napló, where he criticized absolutism. At the same time, he wrote supporter conservative articles anonymously for the Budapesti Hírlap. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, he returned to Hungary for good and became the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd, and also worked for the Politikai Hetilap (Political Weekly Newspaper).[6] He taught the Hungarian language to Austrian-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria.[7]
Political life
Between 1850 and 1860, he joined the circle of István Széchenyi, who at that time lived in Döbling, Austria. He supported the Compromise of 1867 with his articles. From 1875, he became the representative of the Liberal Party founded by Ferenc Deák. He was representative of cities Kőszeg, Arad and Keszthely in several periods. The party collapsed in 1905 and Miksa Falk retired.
References
- ^ "Oltványi Ambrus utószava Falk Miksa: Gróf Széchenyi István utolsó évei és halála c. könyvéhez" (in Hungarian). Magyar Elektromos Könyvtár. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ László, Beke; István, Gazda; Zoltán, Szász; László, Szörényi (23 January 2008). Nemzeti évfordulóink 2008. ISBN 9789638721068.
- ^ "Mindennapi.hu - a közéleti portál".
- ^ "Rogán hamarosan felavatja Columbo szobrát a Falk Miksa utcában". 3 February 2014.
- ^ Die deutschsprachige Presse Ungarns in Jahren 1848/49 in Ihr Männer auf, jetzt ruft die Zeit von Mária Roszá; retrieved, 27 Jänuary 2010
- ^ The Centropa Interview, CENTROPA.ORG, September 2007, accessed 27 January 2010
- ^ Gábor Ujváry: Auf den Spuren ungarischer Geschichte in Wien Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine in Collegium Hungaricum. Accessed 27 January 2010
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