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MAJLATH, JANOS, or JOHN, COUNT (1786-1855)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 450 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAJLATH, JANOS, or JOHN, COUNT (1786-1855) , Hungarian historian and poet, was born at Pest on the 5th of October 1786. First educated at
home
 , he subsequently studied philosophy at Eger (Erlau) and law at GySr (Raab), his father,
Count
  Joseph Majlath, an Austrian minister of state, eventually obtaining for him an appointment in the public service. Majlath devoted himself to historical research and the
translation
  into German of Magyar folk-tales, and of selections from the works of the best of his country's native poets. Moreover, as an
original
  lyrical writer, and as an editor and adapter of old German poems, Majlath showed considerable talent. During the greater part of his life he resided either at Pest or Vienna, but a few years before his death he removed to
Munich
 , where he fell into a state of destitution and extreme despondency. Seized at last by a terrible infatuation, he and his daughter Henriette, who had
long
  been his constant companion and amanuensis, drowned themselves in the Lake of Starnberg, a few miles
south
 -west of
Munich
 , on the 3rd of January 1855.
Of his historical works the most important are the Geichichte der Magyaren (Vienna, 18281831, 5 vols. ; 2nd ed., Ratisbon, 18521853) and his Geschichte des osterreichischen Kaiserstaats (Hamburg, 1834185o, 5 vols.). Specially noteworthy among his metrical translations from the Hungarian are the Magyarische Gedichte (
Stuttgart
  and
Tubingen
 , 1825); and Himfy's auserlesene Liebeslieder (Pest, 1829; 2nd ed., 1831). A valuable contribution to folk-
lore
  appeared in the Magyarische Sagen, Marchen and Erzahlungen (Brunn, 1825; 2nd ed.,
Stuttgart
  and
Tubingen
 , 1837, 2, vols.).
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