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See also:JOKAI, MAURUS (1825-1904) , Hungarian novelist, was See also:born at Rev-See also:Komarom on the 19th of See also:February 1825. His See also:father, See also:Joseph, was a member of the Asva See also:branch of the See also:ancient J6kay See also:family; his See also:mother was a See also:scion of the See also:noble Pulays. The lad was timid and delicate, and therefore educated at See also:home till his tenth See also:year, when he was sent to See also:Pressburg, subsequently completing his See also:education at the Calvinist See also:college at Papa, where he first met See also:Petofi, See also:Alexander Kozma, and several other brilliant See also:young men who subsequently became famous. His family had meant him to follow the See also:law, his father's profession, and accordingly the youth, always singularly assiduous, plodded conscientiously through the usual curriculum at Kecskemet and Pest, and as a full-blown See also:advocate actually succeeded in winning his first See also:case. But the drudgery of a lawyer's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was uncongenial to the ardently poetical youth, and, encouraged by the encomiums pronounced by the Hungarian See also:Academy upon his first See also:play, Zsidb flu (" The See also:Jew Boy "), he flitted, when barely twenty, to Pest in 1845 with a MS. See also:romance in his See also:pocket; he was introduced by Petofi to the See also:literary notabilities of the Hungarian See also:capital, and the same year his first notable romance Hetkoznapok (" Working Days "), appeared, first in the columns of the Pesti Dievatlap, and subsequently, in 1846, in See also:book See also:form. Hetkoznapok, despite its See also:manifest crudities and extravagances, was instantly recognized by all the leading critics as a See also:work of See also:original See also:genius, and in the following year Jokai was appointed the editor of Eletkepek, the leading Hungarian literary See also:journal, and gathered See also:round him all the rising See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent of the See also:country. On the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 the young editor enthusiastically adopted the See also:national cause, and served it with both See also:pen and See also:sword. Now, as ever, he was a moderate Liberal, setting his See also:face steadily against all excesses; but, carried away by the Hungarian triumphs of See also:April and May 1849, he supported See also:Kossuth's fatal blunder of deposing the Hapsburg See also:dynasty, and though, after the See also:war was over, his See also:life was saved by an ingenious stratagem of his wife, the See also:great tragic actress, Roza Benke Laborfalvi, whom he had married on the 29th of See also:August 1848, he lived for the next fourteen years the life of a See also:political suspect. Yet this was perhaps the most glorious See also:period of his existence, for during it he devoted himself to the rehabilitation of the See also:pro-scribed and humiliated Magyar See also:language, composing in it no fewer than See also:thirty great romances, besides innumerable volumes of tales, essays, criticisms and facetim. This was the period of such masterpieces as Erdely See also:Arany Kord (" The See also:Golden See also:Age of Transylvania "), with its sequel Torokvildg Magyarorszdgon (" The See also:Turks in See also:Hungary"),EgyMagyar See also:Nabob("A Hungarian Nabob"), Karpdthy Zoltdn, Janicsdrok vegnapjai (" The Last Days of the See also:Janissaries"), Szomor2 napok (" Sad Days "). On the re-See also:establishment of the Hungarian constitution by the See also:Composition of 1867, Jokai took an active See also:part in politics: As a See also:constant sup-See also:porter of the See also:Tisza See also:administration, not only in See also:parliament, where he sat continuously for more than twenty years, but also as the editor of the See also:government See also:organ, Hon, founded by him in 1863, he became a See also:power in the See also:state, and, though he never took office himself, frequently extricated the government from difficult places. In 1897 the See also:emperor appointed him a member of the upper See also:house. As a suave, See also:practical and witty debater he was particularly successful. Yet it was to literature that he continued to devote most of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and his productiveness after 1870 was stupendous, amounting to some hundreds of volumes. Stranger still, none of this work is slipshod, and the best of it deserves to endure. Amongst the finest of his later See also:works may be mentioned the unique and incomparable Az arany ember (" A See also:Man of See also:Gold ")—translated into See also:English under the See also:title of
Timar's Two Worlds—and A tengerzemu holgy (" Eyes like the See also:Sea "), the latter of which won the Academy's See also:prize in 189o. He died at See also:Budapest on the 5th of May 1904; his wife having predeceased him in 1886. J6kai was an See also:arch-romantic, with a perfervid See also:Oriental See also:imagination, and See also:humour of the purest, rarest description. If one can imagine a See also:combination, in almost equal parts, of See also:Walter See also:Scott, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Beckford, See also:Dumas pere, and See also:Charles See also:Dickens, together with the native originality of an ardent Magyar, one may perhaps form a See also:fair See also:idea of the great Hungarian romancer's indisputable genius.
See Nevy Laszlo, Jokai M6r; Hegedusis See also:Sandor, Jokai M6rrSl; H. W. Temperley, " Maurus Jokai and the See also:Historical Novel," See also:Con-temporary See also:Review (See also:July 1904).
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