Jenő Rákosi (born Jenő Kremsner; 12 November 1842, Acsád, Kingdom of Hungary – 8 February 1929, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, editor, and theater director. He was a member of the House of Magnates and the Kisfaludy Society, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Petőfi Association. His family includes doctor Béla Rákosi, writer Viktor Rákosi, and actress Szidi Rákosi.
Jenő Rákosi (born Jenő Kremsner; 12 November 1842, Acsád, Kingdom of Hungary – 8 February 1929, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, editor, and theater director. He was a member of the House of Magnates and the Kisfaludy Society, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Petőfi Association.
His family includes doctor Béla Rákosi, writer Viktor Rákosi, and actress Szidi Rákosi.
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Life He was the son of János Kremsner and Anna Vogel, who were Danube Swabians. His father previously lived in the villages of Ukk and Dabronc (Ötvöspuszta), where he was a steward of the Szegedy family with a small estate of his own. His family changed their name to Rákosi in 1867. By the 1850s, the family had settled in the village of Türje, where his childhood home had a plaque installed by the Danubian Cultural Association in 1942. Rákosi went to school first in Sárvár, then in Kőszeg, from where he was accepted into a Benedictine Roman Catholic high school in Sopron. There, he was taught by Jeromos Lóskay and Flórián Hollósy and, under the pressure of Hungarian political movements, formed a self-study circle with like-minded students, initially in German, but from 1859, entirely in Hungarian. Here he mainly wrote short stories, but later also started penning plays. During his high school years, Rákosi's parents took him to Graz and introduced him to the German theatre scene. He was so impressed by a piece from Birchpfeifer that, upon returning home, he tried to reproduce it, translating to Hungarian from memory, and using tree branches to recreate the decorations. By…
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Legacy
After his death, only two of five space and a street named after him in Budapest. Harold Harmsworth dedicated a bronze statue to him on the corner of Erzsébet Boulevard and Dohány Street Square, and another work dedicated by Zsigmond Strobl. His birthplace of Acsád had become almost a place of pilgrimage. In 1945, however, after the Soviet takeover of Hungary, the statue in Budapest was removed and melted down in 1948, and now is replaced by a statue of a faun. The Hungarian regime change has not provided the truth behind his works, despite the fact that several major public and intellectual coterie could keep track among his predecessors. An extensive oeuvre, however, is mostly totally unknown, and is nuanced today, so therefore it is not yet possible, but people have found distorted simplifications of his works for research.
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Other tributes include:
Aladár Schöpflin on Jenő Rákosi's death, Nyugat, No. 4 1929. 4 quoted as follows: "The popularity of [Rákosi is] almost unprecedented, comparable to that of Kossuth, with writing being the university of expression."[1]
Gyula Juhász's words about Rákosi (in Hungarian):
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Vad verseinket rendre kaszabolván
Küzdött vitézül és keményen ő.
A harcban mind a két fél győzedelme
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A csillagok közt trónol Ady Endre
S Rákosi itt áll mindnyájunk felett!
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De méltó ellen oly ritkán akad,
Csahos ebekre mért vinnék hadat?
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Hogy a nagy, végső diadal előtt
El ne bocsássa Rákosi Jenőt!
The town of Makó also gave Rákosi honorary citizenship for his work.
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Rákosi Jenő síremléke, Kerepesi temető: 10-1-66
Feleky Géza: Rákosi Jenő, Nyugat 1929. 4. szám
SIPOS BALÁZS: Az (ellen)propaganda. Rákosi Jenő és a "keresztény kurzus", 1919–1942, Múltunk, 2005/3.
Sipos Balázs: Magyarságócsárlás, liberalizmus, modernitás. Avagy Rákosi Jenő és a Nyugat találkozása a Budapesti Hírlapban. Mozgó Világ 35:5, 2009. 101-107.
A magyar irodalom arcképcsarnoka : Rákosi Jenő
Rákosi Jenő: A legnagyobb bolond (Magyar regényírók képes kiadása, 39.)
