Ferenc Kazinczy

Ferenc Kazinczy born the October 27th 1759 in Érsemjén and dead the August 22nd 1831 with Sátoraljaújhely, is a Man of letters Hungarian.

Lawyer, notary of comitat, school inspector, Kazinczy were implied in the conspiracy jacobine of 1793, were condemned to dead and undergo a seven years imprisonment after its sentence had been commuted.

To its coming out of prison, this untiring reformer of the literature and language Hungarian women devoted her life to the cause of the revival of the language in the letters and the administration and of the Hungarian literature. He was the leader of the “neologists”, who enriched the language by some: 8000 words, of which the half entered the current language.

Kazinczy was one of the first members of the founded Hungarian Academy in 1830 and with the establishment of which it contributed. It founded, in 1788, the Magyar Muzeum , the first periodic writing published in Hungarian. Its compatriots owe him moreover translations of various works of the foreign literatures, then Poème S, a Tragédie, Lanassa , accounts of voyage, letters, etc

It translated Anacréon, Cicéron, Salluste, Rochefoucauld, Marmontel, Molière, Shakespeare, Sterne, Lessing, Goethe, Wieland, Klopstock, Ossian, Métastase.

Its Œuvres was joined together (Pest, 1814 - 1816, 9 vol., and 1843 - 1844).

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1128-9

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