János Arany

János Arany was born at Nagyszalonta on 2 March 1817 and learned to read very early. A pupil at the Reformed College of Debrecen, he tired of it and for a time joined a troupe of travelling actors, then returned to his native town, where he was a schoolmaster, then a town employee and assistant notary. A member of the Hungarian Academy, of which he became secretary general, he translated Shakespeare and Aristophanes. His son László, born in 1844, would in turn be a poet. He died in Budapest on 22 October 1882.

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