Péter Szondi

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1929 – 1971

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Who was Péter Szondi?

Péter Szondi was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release after five months in Bergen-Belsen.

In 1965, he became a Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for General and Comparative Literature. His fields were the history of literature and comparative literature.

He committed suicide in 1971.

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Born
May 27, 1929
Budapest
Also known as
  • Peter Szondi
Parents
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Nov 9, 1971
Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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