Árpád Tóth
Hungarian poet
Died when: 42 years 207 days (510 months)Star Sign: Aries
Árpád Tóth (14 April 1886 – 7 November 1928) was a Hungarian poet and translator.Tóth went to Gymnasium (high school) in Debrecen and then studied German and Hungarian at the University of Budapest.
In 1907, his poems began to appear in the papers and and after 1908 in Nyugat.In 1911, he became a theater critic for the paper .
In 1913, he became a tutor to a wealthy family and received a little income from writing but still lived in poverty.
Tuberculosis led him to rest at the in the Tatra Mountains.During the period of the revolutionary government after World War I, he became secretary of the , but lost the position and couldn't find new work after the government's fall.
He remained poor and sick with tuberculosis for the rest of his life, succumbing to the disease in Budapest in 1928.
His prolonged suffering led him to consider suicide at one point – although he did join the staff of in 1921.
In Debrecen, a gymnasium was named after him.In April 2011, the Hungarian National Bank issued a commemorative silver coin celebrating the 125th anniversary of the poet's birth.
