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FAY, ANDRAS (1786–1864)

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FAY, ANDRAS (1786–1864) , Hungarian poet and author, was See also:born on the 3oth of May 1786, at Kohany in the See also:county of Zemplin, and was educated for the See also:law at the See also:Protestant See also:college cf Sarospatak. His See also:Mesa (Fables), the first edition of which appeared at See also:Vienna in 1820, evinced his See also:powers of See also:satire and invention, and won him the well-merited See also:applause of his See also:country-men. These fables, which, on See also:account of their originality and simplicity, caused Fay to be regarded as the Hungarian See also:Aesop,were translated into See also:German by Petz (Raab, 1825), and partly into See also:English by E. D. See also:Butler, Hungarian Poems and Fables (See also:London, 1877). Fay wrote also numerous poems, the See also:chief of which are to be found in the collections Bokreta (Nosegay) (Pest, 1807), and Fris Bokreta (Fresh Nosegay) (Pest, 1818). He also composed plays and romances and tales. In 1835 Fay was elected to the Hungarian See also:diet, and was for a See also:time the See also:leader of the opposition party. It is to him that the Pest Savings See also:Bank owes its origin, and he was one of the chief founders of the Hungarian See also:National See also:theatre. He died on the 26th of See also:July 1864. His earlier See also:works were collected at Pest (1843–1844, 8 vols.). The most noteworthy of his later works is a humorous novel entitled favor orvos es Bakator Ambrus szolgdia (favor the See also:Doctor and his servant See also:Ambrose Bakator), (Pest 1855, 2 vols.).

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