SOMOGYI, BÉLA

SOMOGYI, BÉLA (1868–1920), Hungarian political journalist. Born in Halastó, he taught in secondary schools and edited the social-democrat organ Népszava, as well as the German language organ Volksstimme. After the October Revolution (1918), he became director-general of the Ministry of Education. Under the brief Communist regime, he resigned. Nevertheless, when Somogyi protested against the murders of the White Terror (see hungary ), he was kidnapped and with his companion, a non-Jewish author, B. Bacsó, murdered and his body thrown into the Danube. Somogyi wrote A francia népoktatás (1905) and Az ipari szövetkezetek (1905). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Magyar Zsidó Lexikon (1929), 796; Magyar Irodalmi Lexikon, 3 (1965), 77. (Baruch Yaron)