Identity Elements in a 19th Century Career: Gottfried Feldinger/Földényi Frigyes Cover Image

Identitáselemek egy 19. századi életpályában: Gottfried Feldinger/Földényi Frigyes
Identity Elements in a 19th Century Career: Gottfried Feldinger/Földényi Frigyes

Author(s): Annamária Biró
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: bilingualism; personal and national identity; assimilation; periodical of Romantic

Summary/Abstract: The identity problems of the Banat Germans are supplemented by the life-story of Gottfried Feldinger (1819–1900), lawyer, newspaper editor, composer from Temesvár. Working at Temesvár untill the mid-1800s, in the early 60s he moved to Budapest and magyarized his name to Földényi. With his first wife, Emília Kánya, issued a German language newspaper entitled Euphrosine in 1851, which ceased after a short operation. An interesting contribution of the search for identity is that Feldinger writes the first biography of Sándor Petőfi. In this paper I’m searching for the answer to how the local Banat and Hungarian identity components appear in his writings.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: I
  • Page Range: 90-100
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian