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Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
File:Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Flowers.jpg
Photograph of Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Born
Zsuzsanna Abonyi

July 4th, 1934 (age 90)
Békéscsaba, Hungary
EducationHochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (BA) The University of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Occupation(s)Author, Translator

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth (born July 4, 1934) is a Hungarian author and translator of Jewish descent. After moving to the United States, she documented her experience as a holocaust survivor and translated several works of poetry and literature, mainly those of Hungarian and German authors.[1]

Personal Life

In 1950, Zsuzsanna married Dr. Istvan “Pista” Ozsváth (1928-2013)[2]. In 1957 they immigrated to Hamburg, Germany and later in 1962 they moved to the Unites States, where he had been offered a position as a mathematics professor at The University of Texas in Austin[3]. The following year, he accepted a position at the newly-formed Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, which later became The University of Texas at Dallas, and the Ozsváths moved to the Dallas area, where they raised their two children[4].

Professional Life

File:Zsuzsanna and Pfista Ozsvath.jpg
Zsuzsanna and Pista Ozsváth

A classical pianist, Ozsváth was awarded a concert diploma from the State Academy of Music at Hamburg in 1961. She went on to earn her PhD in German Language and Literature from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968[5]

Ozsváth joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a lecturer in 1976, initially teaching 19th- and 20th-century literature and history classes. Shortly thereafter, she began teaching courses about the Holocaust. Ozsváth received numerous prestigious honors, including the Fulbright Award (1990), IREX Award (1990), and she was a co-recipient of one of the most prestigious Hungarian literary awards, the Milán Füst Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995[6].

She spearheaded the founding of the Holocaust Studies Program at UT Dallas in 1986 and was also instrumental in the establishment of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas a few years later[7]. In 2003, she was appointed to the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies[6]. She continued teaching until 2020, at which time she was named Professor Emeritas.

Works

  • Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti (1992)
  • The Iron–Blue Vault: Attila József, Selected Poems (1999)
  • Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti (2000)
  • When the Danube Ran Red (2010)
  • My Journey Home: Life After the Holocaust (2019)
  • The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe (2019)
  • Faust, Part One (2021)
  • Light among the Shade: Eight–Hundred–Years of Hungarian Poetry (2022)

Notes

  1. ^ "When the Danube Ran Red – Syracuse University Press". Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "University Remembers Founding Faculty Member Istvan Ozsváth". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  3. ^ "Holocaust Scholar to Be Honored at Event Benefiting Research Fund". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  4. ^ "Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Holocaust Studies Program Founder, To Retire". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  5. ^ "Zsuzsanna Ozsvath". profiles.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  6. ^ a b "UTD's Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Appointed to New Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  7. ^ "About the Center - Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies | The University of Texas at Dallas". ackerman.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
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