Jozsef Wolfner

[1] In 1923 Wolfner transformed the publishing house into a joint stock company assuming the role of President and Director.

At the beginning of the twentieth century Jozsef Wolfner was a successful businessman and well known and respected as an erudite man of letters.

Among the authors published by Singer and Wolfner were Ferenc Herczeg,[5] Géza Gárdonyi, Kalman Csátó, Miklos Suranyi, along with Beniczky Bajza Lenke and Hedwig Courths-Mahler.

[8] The latter's son, István Farkas, a famous and recognized painter,[9] followed the path of his father by becoming an art collector and patron as well.

Farkas was also the publishing house Director from 1932 to 1944 when Singer and Wolfner assumed the name of Literary Institute of Modern Times.