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DOBRENTEI, GABOR [GABRIEL] (1786-1851)

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DOBRENTEI, GABOR [See also:GABRIEL] (1786-1851) , Hungarian philologist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at Nagyszollos in '786. He completed his studies at the See also:universities of See also:Wittenberg and See also:Leipzig, and was afterwards engaged as a See also:tutor in Transylvania. At this See also:period he originated and edited the See also:Erdelyi Muzeum, which, notwithstanding its important See also:influence on the development of the Magyar See also:language and literature, soon failed for want of support. In 1820 Dobrentei settled at Pest, and there he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life. He held various See also:official posts, but continued zealously to pursue the studies for which he had See also:early shown a strong preference. His See also:great See also:work is the See also:Ancient Monuments of the Magyar Language (Regi Magyar Nyelvemlekek), the editing of which was entrusted to him by the Hungarian See also:Academy. The first See also:volume was published in 1838 and the fifth was in course of preparation at the See also:time of his See also:death. Dobrentei was one of the twenty-two scholars appointed in 1825 to See also:plan and organize, ender the See also:presidency of See also:Count Teleki, the Hungarian Academy. In addition to his great work he wrote many valuable papers on See also:historical and philological subjects, and many See also:biographical notices of eminent Hungarians. 'these appeared in the Hungarian See also:translation of See also:Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon. He translated into Hungarian See also:Macbeth and other plays of See also:Shakespeare, See also:Sterne's letters from Yorick to Eliza (1828), several of See also:Schiller's tragedies, and See also:Moliere's Avare, and wrote several See also:original poems. Dobrentei does not appear to have taken any See also:part in the revolutionary See also:movement of 1848.

He died at his See also:

country See also:house, near Pest, on the a8th of See also:March 1851.

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