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Béla Balázs

Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1949)

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Born
August 4, 1884
Died
May 17, 1949
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1884

About Béla Balázs

Béla Balázs, born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory. In 1958, the Béla Balázs Award was founded and named for him as an award to recognize achievements in cinematography. Balázs was a moving force in the Sonntagskreis or Sunday Circle, the intellectual discussion group which he founded in the autumn of 1915 together with Lajos Fülep, Arnold Hauser, György Lukács and Károly (Karl) Mannheim.

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Béla Balázs timeline

  1. Balázs was a moving force in the Sonntagskreis or Sunday Circle, the intellectual discussion group which he founded in the autumn of 1915 together with Lajos Fülep, Arnold Hauser, György Lukács and Károly (Karl) Mannheim.
  2. In 1958, the Béla Balázs Award was founded and named for him as an award to recognize achievements in cinematography.

The world when Béla Balázs was born

Béla Balázs was born in 1884. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineGrover Cleveland elected president
  • Technology milestoneFirst roller coaster opens at Coney Island
  • Notable inventionRoller coaster
  • World population~1.44B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population53.7M

1884 versus 2026

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Measure18842026
Population53.7M341 million

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