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KARMAN, JOZSEF (1769-1795)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 680 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KARMAN, JOZSEF (1769-1795) , Hungarian author, was born at Losoncz on the 14th of
March
  1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losoncz and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni Hagyomdnai (Fanny's testament). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer. His sensibility, social charm, liberal ideas (he was one of the earliest of the Magyar freemasons) and personal beauty, opened the doors of the best houses to him. He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at
home
  in the salons of the
Protestant
  magnates. In 1792, together with
Count
  Raday, he founded the first theatrical society at Buda. He maintained that Pest, not Pressburg, should be the literary centre of
Hungary
 , and in 1794 founded the first Hungarian quarterly, Urania, but it met with little support and ceased to exist in 1795, after three volumes had appeared. Karman, who had
long
  been suffering from an incurable disease, died in the same year. ,The most important contribution to Urania was his sentimental novel, Fanni Hagyomanai, much in the style of La nouvelle Heloise and Werther, the most exquisite product of Hungarian
prose
  in the 18th
century
  and one of the finest psychological romances in the literature. Karman also wrote two satires and fragments of an historical novel, while his literary programme is set forth in his dissertation Anemzet csinosoddsa.
Karman's collected works were published in Abafi's Nemzeti Konyvkir (Pest, 1878), &c., preceded by a
life
  of Karman. See F. Barath, Joseph Kdrmdn (Hung., Vas. Ujs, 1874); Zsolt Beothy, article on Karman in Kepes Irodalomtortenet (Budapest, 1894)
(R. N. B.)


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