12 Facts About Margit Kaffka

Margit Kaffka was born on 10 June 1880 in Nagykaroly into a family of minor Hungarian nobility.

Margit Kaffka's father was a public prosecutor, but died early and the family lived under reduced circumstances.

Margit Kaffka studied in Budapest, receiving a teacher's diploma from the Erzsebet Girls' School.

Margit Kaffka returned to Miskolc, where she taught literature and economics in a private girls' school, beloved by students.

Margit Kaffka subsequently became a full-time contributor to Nyugat, the most important periodical of the era.

Margit Kaffka married Bruno Frohlich, a forestry officer, on 17 February 1905.

In 1907 her husband moved to the Ministry of Agriculture, enabling Kaffka to move away from Miskolc, a town she did not like.

Margit Kaffka worked as a teacher in Budapest between 1910 and 1915.

Margit Kaffka married for the second time in 1914 to Ervin Bauer, the younger brother of Bela Balazs.

Margit Kaffka died in the 1918 flu pandemic along with her young son.

Margit Kaffka's works dealt mostly with two main themes: the fall of the gentry, and the physical and spiritual hardships of the independent women in the start of the 20th century.

Margit Kaffka often wrote about her personal memories of great national crises, the glaring oppositions of the anachronistic society in Hungary.