Gyula Farkas (linguist)


Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas de Kisbarnak was a Hungarian literary historian and Finno-Ugric linguist.

Biography

He was born in a Transdanubian Hungarian noble family. His father was Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak Prothonotary of Sopron County, and his mother was Gizella Pottyondy de Potyond und Csáford. Gyula's brother was Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak, General of the Hungarian VI Army Corps during World War II.
In the 1920s Gyula was a coworker of Robert Gragger at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.

During World War II he was head of the German-Hungarian Society.
He founded the Finno-Ugric seminar at the University of Göttingen in 1947.
He wrote over 19 books dealing with various aspects of Hungarian literature and language, including titles published in German and Hungarian.

Literary works