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See also:KARMAN, JOZSEF (1769-1795) , Hungarian author, was See also:born at Losoncz on the 14th of See also:March 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losoncz and Pest, whence he migrated to See also:Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and See also:eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a 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 his See also:mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni Hagyomdnai (Fanny's testament). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer. His sensibility, social See also:charm, liberal ideas (he was one of the earliest of the Magyar freemasons) and See also:personal beauty, opened the doors of the best houses to him. He was generally known as the Pest See also:Alcibiades, and was especially at See also:home in the salons of the See also:Protestant magnates. In 1792, together with See also:Count Raday, he founded the first theatrical society at Buda. He maintained that Pest, not See also:Pressburg, should be the See also:literary centre of See also:Hungary, and in 1794 founded the first Hungarian quarterly, Urania, but it met with little support and ceased to exist in 1795, after three volumes had appeared. Karman, who had See also:long been suffering from an incurable disease, died in the same See also:year. ,The most important contribution to Urania was his sentimental novel, Fanni Hagyomanai, much in the See also:style of La nouvelle Heloise and Werther, the most exquisite product of Hungarian See also:prose in the 18th See also:century and one of the finest psychological romances in the literature. Karman also wrote two satires and fragments of an See also:historical novel, while his literary See also:programme is set forth in his dissertation Anemzet csinosoddsa.
Karman's collected See also:works were published in Abafi's Nemzeti Konyvkir (Pest, 1878), &c., preceded by a See also:life of Karman. See F. Barath, See also:Joseph Kdrmdn (Hung., Vas. Ujs, 1874); Zsolt See also:Beothy, See also:article on Karman in Kepes Irodalomtortenet (See also:Budapest, 1894)•
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