| Short name |
Emma Teleki |
| VIAF |
|
| First name |
Emma |
| Maiden name |
|
| Married name |
|
| Alternative name |
Emma Gerando
|
| Date of birth |
1809 |
| Date of death |
1893 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
- |
| Place of death |
- |
| Lived in |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
,
Hungary
,
Paris
,
Budapest (HUN)
,
France
|
| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
Victoire Tinayre
,
Antonine de Gérando-Teleki
,
Blanka Teleki
|
| Bibliography |
Cf. - Claude Schkolnyk, "Les Tinayre, une famille de médiateurs culturels entre la France et la Hongrie", in CCRH, 1991 (see hyperlink) Fabri, Anna. 'A szep tiltott taj fele': A magyar ironok tortenete a ket szazadfordulo kozott (1795-1905) /Towards the beautiful forbidden land (1795-1905). Budapest: Kortars, 1996. |
| Provisional Notes |
NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Queneau, Histoire des litteratures (Pleiade), 1968
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992.
still to check.
Married to Auguste de Gérando (in 1840), mother of Antonine de Gérando Teleki (1845-1914) and Attila de Gérando Teleki (1847-1897). Exiled in Paris (1849-1870).(info cat.BnF)
Daughter of Transylvanian aristocracy, Teleki married the French aristocrat August de Gerando who then wrote the popular volume La Transylvanie et ses Inhabitants. After the defeat of the 1849, she settled down in Paris, and made her home the centre of the Hungarian emigre community. She moved back to Hungary, kept a salon in Budapest between 1874-79, and then withdrew to her family estate.
-Wrote manuals for her children Antonine and Attila signing them: their mother (anyjok), after that for the children of emigrants(info cat.BnF): focus on patriotic education travelogue about her trip to Greece. Kept a salon in Budapest between 1874-79. |