Anna Angyal
Anna Angyal (née Engel; 1848–1874) was a Hungarian-Jewish author. She also served as a governess.
Anna Angyal | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anna Engel 1848 Veszprim, Hungary |
| Died | 1874 (aged 25–26) Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
Biography
Born in Veszprim in 1848, she attended the Jewish community school of her birthplace, and later that in the town of Hódmezővásárhely, where her father was a teacher.[1] Versed in Hungarian, French, and German literature, Angyal began her literary career at the age of sixteen.[2] Her first novella, Egy magyar család kalandjai ('Adventures of a Hungarian Family'), was published in the Hungarian magazine Szegedi Hiradó. In 1865 she published in the Magyar Izsráelita a short novel entitled Előítéletek ('Prejudices'), in which she described the condition of the Jews in Hungary. Her historical novel, Ilonka és Elemér, was published in 1868.[3]
After the completion of this novel, she accepted a position as governess in Pest, where she wrote several poems and an autobiography. She died after succumbing to an illness in the autumn of 1874.[1]
References
- Kayserling, Meyer (1879). Die jüdischen Frauen in der Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst (in German). Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. pp. 300–301.
- Újvári, Péter, ed. (1929). Magyar zsidó lexikon (in Hungarian). p. 44.
- Blumesberger, Susanne; Doppelhofer, Michael; Mauthe, Gabriele, eds. (2002). Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Vol. 1. Munich: K. G. Saur. pp. 33–34. ISBN 3-598-11545-8.
Bibliography
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore (1901). "Angyal (Engel), Anna". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 603.