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GYONGYOSI, ISTVAN [STEPHEN] (1620-1704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GYONGYOSI, ISTVAN [STEPHEN] (1620-1704)

GYONGYOSI, ISTVAN [See also:
STEPHEN
STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)
STEPHEN] (1620-1704) , Hungarian poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of poor but See also:

NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble parents in 162o. His abilities See also:

early attracted the See also:

NOTICE

notice of See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Ferencz See also:

WESSELENYI, MIKLOS, BARON (1796-1850)

Wesselenyi, who in 164o appointed him to a See also:

POST

post of confidence in Fulek See also:

castle. Here he remained till 1653, when he married and became an See also:

ASSESSOR (Lat. assessare, assidere, to sit by)

assessor of the judicial See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board. In 1681 he was elected as a representative of his See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county at the See also:

DIET

diet held at Soprony (Oedenburg). From 1686 to 1693, and again from 1700 to his See also:

DEATH

death in 1704, he was See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy See also:

lord-See also:

LIEUTENANT

lieutenant of the county of Gomor. Of his See also:

LITERARY

literary See also:

WORKS

works the most famous is the epic poem Murdnyi See also:

VENUS

Venus (Caschau, 1664), in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of his benefactor's wife Maria Szecsi, the heroine of Murany. Among his later productions the best known are Rbzsa-Koszori, or See also:

Rose-See also:

WREATH (O. Eng. wry, from wriian, to twist)

Wreath (1690), See also:

KEMENY, ZSIGMOND, BARON (1816-r875)

Kemeny-Linos (1693), Cupido (1695), Palinodia (1695) and Chariklia (1700). The earliest edition of his collected poetical works is by Dugonics (See also:

PRESSBURG (Hung. Pozsony, Lat. Posonium)

Pressburg and Pest, 1796) ; the best See also:

MODERN

modern selection is that of Toldy, entitled Gyongyosi Istvdn vdlogatott poetai munkdi (Select poetical works of Stephen Gyongyosi, 2 vols., 1864-1865).

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