József Katona

József Katona was born in Kecskemét on 11 November 1791. A law student in Pest, he became passionate about the theatre: he acted under an assumed name in the town's Hungarian company, and translated and adapted plays for it. Having become a lawyer, he obtained a post as magistrate in his native town and settled there; he later became its prosecutor and no longer wrote for the stage. He died of a heart attack in Kecskemét on 16 April 1830, aged thirty-eight, without having seen his play performed.

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• TheatreBánk bánJózsef Katona · 1833not translated into EnglishLiterature