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CSIKY, GREGOR (1842-1891)

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CSIKY, GREGOR (1842-1891) , Hungarian dramatist, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:December 1842 at Pankota, in the See also:county of See also:Arad. He studied See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:theology at Pest and See also:Vienna, and was See also:professor in the Priests' See also:College at See also:Temesvar from 187o to 1878. In the latter See also:year, however, he joined the Evangelical See also:Church, and took up literature. Beginning with novels and See also:works on ecclesiastical See also:history, which met with some recognition, he ultimately devoted himself to See also:writing for the See also:stage. Here his success was immediate. In his Az ellendllhatatlan (" L'Irresistible "), which obtained a See also:prize from the Hungarian See also:Academy, 'he showed the distinctive features of his talent—directness, freshness, realistic vigour, and highly individual See also:style. In rapid See also:succession he enriched Magyar literature with realistic genre-pictures, such as A Proletdrok (" Proletariate "), Buborckok (" Bubbles "), See also:Ket szerelem (" Two Loves "), A szegyenlos (" The Bashful "), Athalia, &c., in all of which he seized on one or another feature or type of See also:modern See also:life, dramatizing it with unusual intensity, qualified by chaste and well-balanced diction. Of the latter, his classical studies may, no doubt, be taken as the See also:inspiration, and his See also:translation of See also:Sophocles and See also:Plautus will See also:long See also:rank with the most successful of Magyar See also:translations of the See also:ancient See also:classics. Among the best known of his novels are See also:Arnold, Az Atlasz csaldd (" The See also:Atlas See also:Family"). He died at See also:Budapest on the 19th of See also:November 1891.

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