Ferenc Toldy

Ferenc Toldy (born Franz Karl Joseph Schedel, August 10, 1805, in Buda - December 10, 1875, in Budapest) was a literary critic from the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary.

As a small boy, he lived with his parents, Franz Schedel and Josepha Thalherr, in Buda.

He studied medicine and practised as a doctor in Pest, but his interest in literature absorbed his attention, and he published a handbook on Hungarian poetry in 1828.

From 1833 to 1844 he was a professor of dietetics at Pest University, and in 1836 helped found the Kisfaludy Society.

He remained in this role until 1861 when he was appointed Professor of Hungarian Literature.