Kungi, Gigmond

The son of Benedek Kunstetter, a school teacher, and Yankee Cohn. He graduated from high school, in 1903 he graduated from the Cluj Pedagogical College with a degree in German language teacher. He taught in a real school Temeshvara (Timisoara). He was interested in the ideological views of Karl Kautsky . He joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party , for which he was fired from his job. In Timisoara he joined the local Masonic lodge, after which he moved to Budapest and in 1907 became editor of the newspaper Népszava ( Hungarian People's Voice ). In Budapest, one of Kunfi’s associates was Oscar Yasi , also a member of the most radical Masonic lodge. From 1908 to 1914, Kunfi was the editor of Szocializmus magazine. He was on friendly terms with the poet Endre Adi , supporting his revolutionary mood and the organization of the Twentieth Century. Adi’s poems have been published in many magazines thanks to Kunfi’s efforts.

In 1918, after the start of revolutionary movements in Austria-Hungary, Kunfi was elected to the National Council of Hungary. In the government of Mihai Karoyi, he was Minister of Labor and Social Security (without a portfolio), as well as Minister for Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia. In the government of Denesh Berynkey, he served as Minister of Education. During the existence of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, was the People's Commissar of Education. In June 1919, Kunfi resigned, speaking out against the dictatorship in the Republic, and after the fall of the HRV, he fled from white terror to Austria, where he became editor of the Austrian newspaper Arbeiter Zeitung and the Hungarian-language newspaper Világosság. In 1929, Kunfi committed suicide by poisoning himself with Veronal .

His first wife was Melanie Wambury, the daughter of Sandor Wamberger and Fanny Steinhaus, married on August 14, 1904. In the marriage, the daughter of Nora was born, soon Melanie and Gigmond divorced. On January 29, 1914 he entered into a marriage for the second time, Erzhebet Ronai, the sister of Zoltan Ronai and the daughter of Bernat Ronai and Ilona Kishfalvi became his wife. Witnesses at the wedding were Pal Sende and Bela Rainitz.

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