József Bánóczi

Born in Szentgál, Hungary, in the Habsburg Empire, and raised in a religious but also maskilic family, József Bánóczi left his rabbinical seminary for Leipzig University, where he received a degree and met Wilhelm Bacher. In 1878, he moved to Budapest to teach at Budapest University. He was admitted to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1879 and, in 1887, became head of the Budapest Jewish Teachers’ College. He was a founding coeditor of Filozofiai Írók Tára (Treasury of Philosophical Writers) in 1881, Magyar Zsidó Szemle (Hungarian Jewish Review) in 1884, and the Jewish Hungarian Literary Association’s Évkönyv (Yearbook) in 1895. He published on philosophy, Hungarian philology, and Jewish education. His son László Bánóczi was a Hungarian playwright.