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KOLCSEY, FERENCZ (1740-1838)

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KOLCSEY, FERENCZ (1740-1838) , Hungarian poet, critic and orator, was See also:born at Szodemeter, in Transylvania, on the 8th of See also:August 1790. In his fifteenth See also:year he made the acquaintance of See also:Kazinczy and zealously adopted his linguistic reforms. In 1809 Kolcsey went to Pest and became a " See also:notary to the royal See also:board." See also:Law proved distasteful, and at Cseke in Szatmar See also:county he devoted his See also:time to aesthetical study, See also:poetry, See also:criticism, and the See also:defence of the theories of Kazinczy. Kolcsey's See also:early metrical pieces contributed to the Transylvanian Museum did not attract much See also:attention, whilst his severe criticisms of See also:Csokonai, Kis, and especially Berzsenyi, published in 1817, rendered him very unpopular. From 1821 to 1826 he published many See also:separate poems of See also:great beauty in the See also:Aurora, See also:Hebe, See also:Aspasia, and other magazines of polite literature. He joined See also:Paul Szemere in a new periodical, styled Elet es literatura (" See also:Life and Literature "), which appeared from 1826 to 1829, in 4 vols., and gained for Kolcsey the highest reputation as a See also:critical writer. From 1832 to 1835 he sat in the Hungarian See also:Diet, where his extreme liberal views and his singular eloquence soon rendered him famous as a See also:parliamentary See also:leader. Elected on the 17th of See also:November 183o a member of the Hungarian See also:Academy of Sciences, he took See also:part in its first See also:grand See also:meeting; in 1832, he delivered his famous oration on Kazinczy, and in 1836 that on his former opponent See also:Daniel Berzsenyi. When in 1838 See also:Baron See also:Wesselenyi was unjustly thrown into See also:prison upon a See also:charge of See also:treason, Kolcsey eloquently though unsuccessfully conducted his defence; and he died about a See also:week afterwards (August 24) from See also:internal inflammation. His collected See also:works, in 6 vols., were published at Pest, 184o-1848, and his See also:journal of the diet of 1832–1836 appeared in 1848. A See also:monument erected to the memory of Kolcsey was unveiled at Szatmar-Nemeti on the 25th of See also:September 1864. See G.

Steinacker, Ungarische Lyriker (See also:

Leipzig, and Pest, 1874) ; F. Toldy, Magyar Koltek elete (2 vols., Pest, 1871) ; J. Ferenczy and J. Danielik, Magyar Ira (2 vols., Pest, 1856-1858).

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