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GARAY, JANOS (1812-1853)

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GARAY, JANOS (1812-1853) , Hungarian poet and author, was See also:born on the loth of See also:October 1812, at Szegsz5,rd, in the See also:county of Tolna. From 1823 to 1828 he studied at Fiinfkirchen, and subsequently, in 1829, at the university of Pest. In 1834 he brought out an heroic poem, in hexameters, under the See also:title Csaldr. After this he issued in See also:quick See also:succession various See also:historical dramas, among which the most successful were Arbecz, Orszdgh Ilona and Bdthori Erzsebet the first two published at Pest in 1837 and the last in 184o. Garay was an energetic journalist, and in 1838 he removed to See also:Pressburg, where he edited the See also:political See also:journal Hirnok (See also:Herald). He returned to Pest in 1839, when he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian See also:Academy of Sciences. In 1842 he was admitted into the See also:Kisfaludy Society, of which he became second secretary. Garay enriched Hungarian literature with numerous lyrical poems, See also:ballads and tales. The first collection of his poems was published at Pest in 1843; and his See also:prose tales appeared in 1845, under the title of Tollrajzok (Sketches with the See also:Pen). His historical ballads and legends, styled Arpddok (Pest, 1847, 2nd ed. 1848), showed him to be a See also:master in the See also:art of ballad-See also:writing. Some of his lyrical poems also are excellent, as, for example, Balatoni Kagylok (Shells from the See also:Balaton See also:Lake) (Pest, 1848).

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legend Bosnydk Zshffa (Pest, 1847), and his poetical See also:romance Frangepan Kristofne (See also:Christopher Frangepan's Wife) (Pest, 1846), gained the See also:prize of the Kisfaludy Society. His last and most famous See also:work was an historical poem in twelve cantos, with the title Szent Ldszld (See also:Saint See also:Ladislaus) (See also:Eger, 1852, 2nd ed., Pest, 1853, 3rd ed. 1863). Garay was See also:professor of Hungarian See also:language and literature to the university of Pest in 1848-1849. After about four years' illness he died on the 5th of See also:November 1853, in See also:great want. A collective edition of his poems was published at Pest the See also:year after his See also:death by F. See also:Ney (2nd ed. 186o), and several of his poems were translated by Kertbeny. See Garay Janos Osszes keltemenyei (2nd ed., Pest, 186o); and Dichtungen von Johann Garay (2nd ed., See also:Vienna, 1856).

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