When and where was Károly Kerényi born?
Károly Kerényi entered the world on the 19th of January 1897 in Temesvár, a city within the Kingdom of Hungary and Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today that same location bears the name Timișoara inside Romania.
Károly Kerényi entered the world on the 19th of January 1897 in Temesvár, a city within the Kingdom of Hungary and Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today that same location bears the name Timișoara inside Romania.
German forces entered Hungary in 1944 and installed a right-wing government overnight which caused Kerényi to return his passport at that moment. He became stateless along with many other Hungarians residing there and remained a political refugee for the rest of his life without citizenship from any nation.
Together they compiled two editions titled Das göttliche Kind and Das göttliche Mädchen which appeared under the title Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie in 1941. Their collaboration established mythology as a science in its own right rather than merely historical curiosity.
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life stands out as likely his most crucial work completed after thirty-eight years of development. The book was started as an idea in 1931 and finished only in 1969.
All documentation including photos correspondence and manuscripts not destroyed during wartime now reside at the German Archive for Literature in Marbach near Stuttgart. His comprehensive library and estate remain accessible at the University of Pécs where a street bears his name.