Ferenc Kazinczy

Ferenc Kazinczy was born in Érsemjén, in Bihar county, on 27 October 1759. As school inspector for a dozen counties, he launched the Magyar Museum in Kassa in 1787 with Dávid Baróti Szabó and János Batsányi. Implicated in the Jacobin conspiracy, he was sentenced to death on 8 May 1795; the sentence was commuted, and he spent two thousand three hundred and eighty-seven days in the prisons of Buda, Brünn, Kufstein and Munkács until his pardon on 28 June 1801. A translator of Gessner, Goethe, Shakespeare, Molière and Metastasio, he settled in Széphalom, where he died of cholera on 23 August 1831.

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• PoetryTövisek és virágokFerenc Kazinczy · 1811not translated into EnglishLiterature