Biblatex entries with acute accent have wrong format in citation

Question

I want to cite a book from Albert-László Barabási. In the text the format ('last name of author', 'year') should be used, but the citation is printed in the format ('first name' 'last name', 'year').

I found out that the behavior is related to the "acute accents" in his name. When the BibTeX entry is changed from author = {Barab\'{a}si, Albert-L\'{a}szl\'{o}} to author = {Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo} the citation has the correct format ('last name', 'year').

How can this behavior be changed to print the 'normal' format?

When I use author = {Barab\'{a}si, Albert-L\'{a}szl\'{o}} with \bibliographystyle{apalike}, I got a correct[Barabási, 2013] reference. -- What is the style you are using ? — Jaime, Sep 16 '17 at 15:32
I use the following setup: \usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber,bibencoding=auto]{biblatex}. — Thomas Koppensteiner, Sep 16 '17 at 15:47
Using Sharelatex, I got a correct Barabási, 2013. Please provide code for a MWE. — Jaime, Sep 16 '17 at 16:16
See also biblatex, authoryear style: In-text citations display first name initials for certain bibliography entries even though in this case the solution was not to turn off the disambiguation feature, but to fix a typo in the .bib source. — moewe, Sep 17 '17 at 10:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '17 at 19:49

I found the cause. It was a typo in second biblatex entry: author = {Newman, Mark and Barabási, Alberto-László} instead of author = {Newman, Mark and Barabási, Albert-László} (Alberto vs. Albert).

When both entries are cited the behavior occurs. Fixing the typo fixes the citations.

I guess the first name is written to distingues between two authors with the same last name.

Biblatex entries with acute accent have wrong format in citation

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