Ede Szigligeti

Ede Szigligeti, born József Szathmáry in Nagyvárad on 8 March 1814, first entered the employ of an engineer, then chose the theatre and made his debut on the Buda stage on 15 August 1834; his father, hostile, then forbade him to use his name. Dramatist at the National Theatre, he was elected to the Hungarian Academy in 1840 and to the Kisfaludy Society in 1845. The Academy crowned sixteen of his plays, the National Theatre three, and he wrote more than a hundred in half a century. He died on 19 January 1878.

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• TheatreSzökött katonaEde Szigligeti · 1843not translated into EnglishLiterature