Author · Hungary
Sándor Kisfaludy
Died in 1844
Sándor Kisfaludy was born in Sümeg on 27 September 1772, into a Transdanubian noble family. After studying law, he joined the army and served in the Hungarian noble guard in Vienna. Taken prisoner in June 1796 at the siege of the castle of Milan, he spent his captivity in Draguignan, in Provence, where reading Petrarch led him to poetry. In 1800 he married Róza Szegedy, the addressee of his verses, and afterwards lived on his estates. A member of the Hungarian Academy, he died in Sümeg on 28 October 1844.
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- PoetryHimfy szerelmeiSándor Kisfaludy · 1807not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain