Albert Kardos

KARDOS, ALBERT (1861–1945), literary scholar and historian. Headmaster of the Debrecen Jewish high school, Kardos was an expert on 16^th-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 16^th Century," 1883) and a history of Hungarian literature (1892). He died after deportation.

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