János Kriza

János Kriza, born in 1811 in Nagyajta, in the Székely land, the son of a Unitarian pastor, studied in Kolozsvár and then in Berlin, became a pastor in Kolozsvár and a teacher at the Unitarian college, and was elected Unitarian bishop of Transylvania in 1861. A poet himself, a corresponding member of the Academy from 1841, he announced in 1843 a collection of folk poetry that found no subscribers; the book appeared only in 1863, at the expense of Count Imre Mikó, and the Academy awarded it a prize. The second volume he was preparing was still unpublished at his death, in Kolozsvár, in 1875.

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• PoetryThe Folk-Tales of the MagyarsVadrózsákJános Kriza · 1863Literature