Dezső Földes

Dezső Földes (30 December 1880 in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary – 27 March 1950 in Cleveland, United States)^[1] was a Hungarian saber fencer.^[2]^[3]

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He was Jewish,^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] and was born into a Hungarian Jewish family^[9] in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary.^[2] Földes moved to the United States in 1912, and set up a hospital clinic for the poor in Cleveland, where he died in 1950.^[10]

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