GARAY, JANOS (1812-1853)

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GARAY, JANOS (1812-1853) , Hungarian poet and author, was born on the loth of October 1812, at Szegsz5,rd, in the county of Tolna. From 1823 to 1828 he studied at Fiinfkirchen, and subsequently, in 1829, at the university of Pest. In 1834 he brought out an heroic poem, in hexameters, under the title Csaldr. After this he issued in

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succession various historical dramas, among which the most successful were Arbecz, Orszdgh Ilona and Bdthori Erzsebet the first two published at Pest in 1837 and the last in 184o. Garay was an energetic journalist, and in 1838 he removed to Pressburg, where he edited the political

journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Hirnok (Herald). He returned to Pest in 1839, when he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Sciences. In 1842 he was admitted into the

Kisfaludy

KISFALUDY, KAROLY

Society, of which he became second secretary. Garay enriched Hungarian literature with numerous lyrical poems,

ballads

BALLADS

and tales. The first collection of his poems was published at Pest in 1843; and his

prose

PROSE

tales appeared in 1845, under the title of Tollrajzok (Sketches with the Pen). His historical

ballads

BALLADS

and legends, styled Arpddok (Pest, 1847, 2nd ed. 1848), showed him to be a master in the art of ballad-writing. Some of his lyrical poems also are excellent, as, for example, Balatoni Kagylok (Shells from the

Balaton

BALATON (PLATTENSEE)

Lake) (Pest, 1848). His legend Bosnydk Zshffa (Pest, 1847), and his poetical romance Frangepan Kristofne (Christopher Frangepan's Wife) (Pest, 1846), gained the prize of the

Kisfaludy

KISFALUDY, KAROLY

Society. His last and most famous

work

WORK

was an historical poem in twelve cantos, with the title Szent Ldszld (Saint Ladislaus) (

Eger

, 1852, 2nd ed., Pest, 1853, 3rd ed. 1863). Garay was professor of Hungarian language and literature to the university of Pest in 1848-1849. After about four years' illness he died on the 5th of November 1853, in

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want. A collective edition of his poems was published at Pest the year after his death by F. Ney (2nd ed. 186o), and several of his poems were translated by Kertbeny.
See Garay Janos Osszes keltemenyei (2nd ed., Pest, 186o); and Dichtungen von Johann Garay (2nd ed., Vienna, 1856).

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