Ferenc Móra was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 novelist, journalist, and museologist.
Ferenc Móra is universally recognized and acclaimed as a major writer and author in Hungarian (Magyar) literature

Hungarian literature

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Life

Ferenc Móra was born with an intellectually rich mind into a financially poor family. His father Márton Móra was a tailor, and his mother Anna Juhász was a baker. He acquired his formal education under the most extreme hardships because of the financial poverty of his family. At the Budapest University he earned the degree of Geography and History education but worked as a teacher only for one year at Felsőlövő, Vas

Vas

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 county. He was a prominent figure of youth literature

Youth literature

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 in Hungary. His parallel career of museology

Museology

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started in 1904 at the combined library and museum of Szeged serving the county capital of Szeged and its surrounding Csongrád county. He was appointed as the director of the combined library and museum of Szeged and Csongrád county in 1917 and served in that post as director until 1934. Today the museum is named in his honor as the "Móra Ferenc Muzeum" which can be seen on the internet at many websites such as,,,.

Major literary works

• Rab ember fiai "Sons of the Slave Man" (Budapest, 1909)
• Mindenki Jánoskája "Everybody's Little Johnnie" (Budapest, 1911)
• Csilicsali Csalavári Csalavér (Budapest, 1912)
• Filkó meg én "Filkó and I" (Budapest, 1915)
• Kincskereső kis ködmön "The Treasure-seeking Little Jacket" (Budapest, 1918)
• Dióbél királyfi "Prince Walnutmeat" (Budapest, 1922)
• A festő halála "Death of the Painter" (novel, Budapest, 1921, later published as Négy apának egy leánya "Four Fathers' One Daughter")
• Georgikon (Budapest, 1925)
• Nádihegedű "Reed Fiddle" (Budapest, 1927)
• Ének a búzamezőkről "A Song about Wheat Fields" (novel, Budapest, 1927)
• Beszélgetés a ferdetoronnyal "Conversation with the Leaning Tower" (Budapest, 1927)
• Véreim "My Descendants" (Budapest, 1927)
• Sokféle "Diverse" (Budapest, 1927)
• Egy cár, akit várnak "A Tzar Who is Waited for" (Budapest, 1930)
• Aranykoporsó "Golden Coffin" (historical novel, Budapest, 1932)
• Daru-utcától a Móra Ferenc-utcáig "From Crane Street to Móra Ferenc Street" (autobiography , Budapest, 1934)
• Utazás a földalatti Magyarországon "A Journey in the Undeground Hungary" (Budapest, 1935)
• Parasztjaim "My Peasants" (Budapest, 1935)
• Dióbél királykisasszony "Princess Walnutmeat" (Budapest, 1935)
• Napok, holdak, elmúlt csillagok "Suns, Moons, Bygone Stars" (Budapest, 1935)

See also