Nationality Hungarian | Name Ernst Lorsy | |
Born 28 November 1889 ( 1889-11-28 ) Mezoszilas, Hungary Occupation journalist, and translator Died August 23, 1960, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Ernst Lorsy, (in Hungarian: Lorsy Ernő, born 28 November 1889 in Mezőszilas, Hungary – 23 August 1960 in New York City) Hungarian journalist, translator and historian of Jewish descent.
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Life
He was born in Jewish family, the son of Isidor Lorsy and Hermina Ernst. He studied at Hungarian and German universities, and started working as a journalist in 1912 at Pester Lloyd. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was a Secretary of Public Education. After the fall of the communists he emigrated to Wien, where he worked at Bécsi Magyar Újság. During his emigration he redacted the memoir of Mihály Károlyi (Egy egész világ ellen). In the 1930-s he returned to Hungary but because of the political changes he emigrated again, now to France. During the Second World War, when Germany attacked France, he fled to North-Africa (1940), a year later he went to the USA, where he worked as a journalist at several Hungarian newspapers, and also as a translator, and thanks to the governor of Ohio state he was the director of the Cleveland Public Library. He died in 1960.