Kardos, Albert
KARDOS, ALBERT
KARDOS, ALBERT (1861–1945), literary scholar and historian. Headmaster of the Debrecen Jewish high school, Kardos was an expert on 16th-century Hungarian literature. Even in his eighties, victimized by the Nazis, he continued his literary work. Two important products of his research were A xvi század lírai költészete ("Lyric Poetry of the 16th Century," 1883) and a history of Hungarian literature (1892). He died after deportation.
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