# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mate-zalka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:14.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mate-zalka"
name: "Máté Zalka"
slug: "mate-zalka"
description: "Béla Frankl, known by the name Máté Zalka, was a Hungarian writer, soldier, and revolutionary. He fought in the Royal Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Imperial Russian Army. Subsequently, while a Russian prisoner of war, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War. After participating in various other conflicts for the Soviet Union, Zalka moved to Spain and fought in the Spanish Civil War as a general for the International Brigades. He was killed on June 22, 1937, near Huesca when his car was hit by artillery fire. His remains were brought back to Hungary, where he was buried in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest."
tagline: "Hungarian writer and revolutionary (1896–1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%80_12_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8B.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-04-23"
deathDate: "1937-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.95
  momentum:             5.414562397786529
  historical:           14.32721866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Мате Залка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مات زالكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Матэ Залка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Мате Залка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Мате Залка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%96%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "מאטה זלקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalka_M%C3%A1t%C3%A9"
    title: "Zalka Máté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5_%D4%B6%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%AF%D5%A1"
    title: "Մատե Զալկա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5"
    title: "Залка Мате"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1t%C3%A9_Zalka"
    title: "Máté Zalka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5"
    title: "Залка, Мате"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958527"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump