Béla Menczer
Béla Menczer (17 November 1902 – 11 June 1983) was a Hungarian writer and political journalist.
Contents
Biography
Béla Menczer was born in Budapest. Menczer studied law. During the White Terror he participated with Gyula Illyés, Pál Szegi, György Markos, Ernő Normai and others in the so-called Menczer Group, distributing leaflets and helping the relatives of those arrested. In 1922, he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He was released after serving ten months and then fled abroad. After a short stay in Vienna, he went to Paris, where he completed his studies at the Sorbonne. In Paris, he became close to Mihály Károlyi and the Világosság group. He sent articles to the Látóhatár and Századunk in Budapest. Between 1930 and 1933, he lived in Berlin, where he was a contributor to Carl von Ossietzky's magazine Die Weltbühne and the left-wing newspaper Die Welt am Montag.
In 1934, he was back in Paris writing for Italian anti-fascist newspapers. From 1934 to 1939, he lived in England, where he defended the Abyssinians in an article for the Századunk. In London, he also came into personal contact with the exiled emperor, Haile Selassie. After the outbreak of World War II, he joined de Gaulle's army. He fought in Africa and, after being overcome by malaria, worked for the press office of the French liberation movement in London from 1943 to 1946. In 1946 he was demobilised from the French army and settled permanently in England.
Works
- "The Royal Drama of Strindberg," The Dublin Review, Vol. CCXXVI, No. 455 (1952)
- Catholic Political Thought, 1789-1848 (1952; 1962)[1]
- Tensions of Order & Freedom: Catholic Political Thought, 1789-1848 (1994; with an introduction by Russell Kirk)
- "The Spiritual Geography of Europe," The Dublin Review, Vol. CCXXVI, No. 458 (1952)
- Bread Far from My Cradle (2023; edited by Zoltán Balázs)
Notes
- ↑ Cameron, J. M. (1952). "Catholic Myths and French Politics," The Dublin Review, Vol. CCXXVI, No. 458, pp. 30–40.
