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| ID Number: | BB38-0205 |
| Description: | Pál Gyulai, poet and historian |
| Country or State: | Hungary |
| Year: | 28.09.1976 |
| Face Value: | 2 Ft - Hungarian forint |
| Series: | Famous Hungarians |
| Subject/Theme: | 150th Birth Anniversary of Pál Gyulai (1826-1909) |
| Perforation: | comb 12 |
| Printing: | Offset lithography |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 34 x 46 mm |
| Emission: | 3,709,000 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel HU 3140A Stamp Number HU 2436 Yvert et Tellier HU 2515 Stanley Gibbons HU 3052 AFA number HU 3059 Philatelia Hungarica Catalog HU 3132 |
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Pál Gyulai, falsely Paul of Gyulai (born January 25, 1826 in Cluj, Transylvania, † November 9, 1909 in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet and critic. Gyulai completed his schooling in his native city and later taught even at the local high school. He then worked as a journalist in Pest, until in 1875 he was appointed professor of Hungarian literary history at the University of Budapest. From 1858 he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1870 Secretary of the first (linguistic and scholarly) class of the same and from 1881 President of the Kisfaludy Society. |
