János Batsányi

János Batsányi was born in Tapolca on 9 May 1763, the son of a shoemaker. A tutor in the Orczy household, then an employee of the royal chamber in Kassa, he founded the Magyar Museum there with Ferenc Kazinczy and Dávid Baróti Szabó. He lost his post in 1793, was arrested on 10 September 1794 in the affair of Martinovics's Jacobins and spent a year in Kufstein. A bank clerk in Vienna, he married the poet Gabriella Baumberg in 1805, translated Napoleon's proclamation to the Hungarians in 1809 and went to Paris. Interned in Linz after 1815, he died there on 12 May 1845.

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• PoetryOn the Changes in FranceA franciaországi változásokraJános Batsányi · 1790Literature