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Dezső Baróti (originally Kratofil, Kratochfill) (Torda [today: Romania], October 2, 1911 - Budapest, 5 September 1994) was a Hungarian literary historian. Father Dezső Kratofil educator, his younger brother Lajos Baróti was a football coach, coach, federal captain.
The convict of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence. At the University of Szeged he studied Hungarian literary history and French studies, Miklós Radnóti's classmate. He participated in the village research of the Szeged Young Artists' College of Art. Sándor Sík, Béla Zolnai and Dezső Várkonyi Hildebrand. In 1939 he obtained his high school diploma. He was a university assistant in Szeged between 1935 and 1941, and he was a member of the journal Magyarságudomány.
In 1943 he earned a university degree in chemistry. In 1947-1948 he worked in the Ministry of Culture. Then, at the University of Szeged, between 1948 and 1957, the head of the Hungarian literary history of the Hungarian literary history, during the semester (1949/50 first semester), the Pedagogical Psychology Institute. Between 1952 and 1955 he was the dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and from 1955 to 57 he was the rector of the University of Szeged. He was detained in the rector's office of the University of Szeged in the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence on April 1, 1957, April 26, 1957, and on 1 October he was sentenced to 2 years and six months' imprisonment. After being released from prison, he found it hard to find a job and eventually worked in Budapest at the Petőfi Literary Museum until 1977, receiving the Ferenc Móra prize that year.
In 1988, Veszprem Dezső Hildebrand was invited to remembrance to Szeged, and he recalled his old professor. According to his own confession, Várkonyi, as a literary historian, also had much to do with the emotional aspects of the literary works he observed in Várkony's lectures. His literary studies in 1971 gave the following title: Irises, emotions, styles. In the 1990s, he worked as a guest professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. He was buried in the Farkasriti cemetery.