Ferenc Kazinczy biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Ferenc Kazinczy

Author Name:

Ferenc Kazinczy

Born As:

Ferenc Kazinczy

Other Names:

Born:

27 Oct 1759

Died:

22 Aug 1831




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Writer and Critic                          
Selected Works:

Tövisek és virágok - 1811
Poétai episztola Vitkovics Mihályhoz - 1811
Felelet a mondolatra pamphlet, - 1815
Ortológus és neológus nálunk és más nemzeteknél - 1819.                          
Wife Sophia Török                          
Started the first Magyar literary magazine, Magyar Muzeum.
Indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Magyar language                          
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Kazinczy

Born at Érsemjén (today Şimian, Romania), in the county of Bihar, Hungary.
Implicated in the democratic conspiracy of the abbot Martinovics, Kazinczy was arrested in December 1794, and condemned to death; but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment.