Biografia: Ágoston Pavel

Ágoston Pavel



Ágoston Pavel,(or his native form, Pável Ágoston), was born in Cankova (Slovenia), the 28th of August, 1886. He died the 2nd of January, 1946. He was an Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian. His father, Iván Pavel, was Hungarian, and his mother, Erzsébet Obal, was Slovene. He attended elementary school in his native village. Despite his Slovene mother tongue, Ágoston Pavel, graduated with excellent notes from a Hungarian-speaking high school in Szentgotthárd, a very little town of Hungary. He being the top student among 28, from 1897 through 1901. He developed a well relationship with his class teacher, Győző Schmidt. Schmidt also, was the high school's librarian and the editor of the local newspaper. He taught him Hungarian and Latin.

Pavel, continued his studies at Premont College in Szombathely, Hungary, from 1901 to 1905. While he was attending college, he participated in the "Society for Voluntary Further Education". In the internal gazette called "Bimbófüzér", some of his first epigrams, ballads and historical elegies appeared.

From 1905 to 1909, Pavel studied Hungarian and Latin at the Philosophical Faculty of Péter Pázmány University, in Budapest. He attended classes in Serbo-Croatian and Russian languages. Pavel gained a scholarship, and taught as an assistant professor, where one of his students was Albert Szent-Györgyi, who later won a Nobel Prize in Physiology.

The first verses of Pavel Ágoston, were published in the newspaper Muraszombat és Vidéke (Murska Sobota and its district). Were published in Hungarian, in Wendish, in Novine, and in Kolendar (all of these, are dialects of Slovenia, less the Hungarian). On November 13, 1909 Pavel read some Slovene verse translations and some of his own poetry at the Hungarian folklore symposium.

Also in 1909, the Hungarian Academy of Science, published Pavel's essay on the phonology of the Slovene language, in the language district of Vashidegkút. This work won an award at the University and was highly recognized.

In 1909-10, Pavel served in the 7th Graz, and then in the 82nd Székelyudvarhely  (Transylvania) infantry He spent his time in the army, because he wants to collect popular verses, songs, customs and clothing.

From 1911 to 1913, he was a substitute teacher at the national main high school of Torda (Transylvania). On April 14, 1914 he married Irene Benko,  in Szentgotthárd.

On June 10, 1914 he became a fully certified teacher but was drafted into military service. On September 6, 1914 he was badly injured in the battle of Lemberg, in Lviv (Ukraine), which resulted in five years of illness.

In 1916 Pavel received a Hungarian Academy of Science award, for his work "The Modern Wendish Literary Language".

On April 27, 1932 Pavel became a member of the caucus of the Folklore Society, and on June 12, 1939 a member of the correspondence department. In December 1932 was published his first compendium of verse, called "Praying in The Bosom of The Blind Valley".
From March 1933 until his death in 1946, he was the editor of the scientific journal Vasi Szemle ("Vas Review"). Pavel formulated and declared the journal's objective as "a dedication to and an appreciation of the cultural problems in the history of Vas County and west Hungary."

Bibliography

-   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ágoston_Pável 
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 -  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ágoston-Pável/109366189082436 
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