Kálmán Kalocsay (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkaːlmaːn ˈkɒlot͡ʃɒi]; 6 October 1891 in Abaújszántó – 27 February 1976) was a Hungarian Esperantist poet, translator, and editor who significantly influenced Esperanto culture, both in its literature and in the language itself, through his original poetry and his translations of literary works from his native Hungarian and other languages of Europe. His name is sometimes Esperantized as Kolomano Kaloĉajo, and some of his work was published under various pseudonyms, including C.E.R. Bumy, Kopar, Alex Kay, K. Stelov, Malice Pik and Peter Peneter.

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Kálmán Kalocsay
Born	(1891-10-06)October 6, 1891 Abaújszántó
Died	February 23, 1976(1976-02-23) (aged 84) Budapest
Education	University of Budapest (—1916, medicine)
Occupation(s)	Infectious disease specialist Poet Translator Esperantist
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Kalocsay studied medicine and later became a surgeon and the chief infectious disease specialist at a major Budapest hospital.^[which?] He learned both Esperanto and its breakaway dialect Ido in his adolescence, but became more inclined towards Esperanto after he had seen its greater literary potential. In 1921 his first original collection of poems, Mondo kaj Koro (“World and heart”) was published. A further decade passed before the appearance of his collection Streĉita Kordo (“A taut string”), which many Esperantists^[which?] consider one of the finest collections of original Esperanto poetry,^{[citation needed]} and Rimportretoj (“Portraits in rhyme”), witty poems in rondel style about various people then prominent in the Esperanto movement. In 1932, under the pseudonym Peter Peneter, he published Sekretaj Sonetoj (“Secret sonnets”), a book of erotic verse.

In addition to being a prolific author of Esperanto works, Kalocsay guided the Esperanto literary world through a magazine and publishing house called Literaturo Mondo (“Literary world”). A group of writers who coalesced around this magazine during the 1920s and 1930s were known as the "Budapest school" (Budapeŝto skolo).

Works of Kalocsay about literary and linguistic theory include the expansive Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto (“Complete grammar of Esperanto”) and Parnasa Gvidlibro (“Handbook of Parnassus”), a work on Esperanto poetics co-authored with Gaston Waringhien, and an academic style guide for Esperanto, Lingvo – Stilo – Formo (“Language, style and form”). Kalocsay also co-compiled the two-volume Enciklopedio de Esperanto (“Encyclopædia of Esperanto”).

Much was written about Kalocsay by his literary executor Ada Csiszár, after whose death the estate passed to the Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library.

• Julio Baghy

• In Memoriam Kalocsay Kálmán Csiszár Ada, Budapest, 1994 (in Hungarian)
• Omaĝe al Kálmán Kalocsay 1 – 9 kötet, Csiszár Ada, Budapest, 1998 – 2006 (in Esperanto)

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• Works by Kálmán Kalocsay at Project Gutenberg
• Kalman Kalocsay - a brief biography at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)
• Kalman Kalocsay's poetry in English at Poems Found in Translation
• Guerrero, Javier (2012). "Kalocsay, masonisto de la Parnaso" (PDF). La Ondo de Esperanto (in Esperanto). 3 (209): 16.