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TOMPA, MIHALY [MICHAEL] (18171868)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 1063 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TOMPA, MIHALY [MICHAEL] (18171868) , Hungarian lyric poet, was born in 1817 at Rima-Szombat, in the county of Gomor, his father being
village
  bootmaker. He studied law and theology in Saros-Patak, and subsequently at Budapest; and, after many vicissitudes, at the age of thirty he accepted the post of
Protestant
  minister in Beje, a small
village
  in his native county, whence, in two years, he removed to Kelemer, and four years later to Hanva, in the county of Borsod, where he remained till his death in 1868.
At the age of four-and-twenty Tompa published his first poems in the
Athenaeum
 , which soon procured for him a high reputation. His first volume, Nepregek is Nepmonddk (" Folk-Legends and Folk-Tales "), in 1846, met with
great
  success, and the same may be said of the first volume of his " Poems " in 1847. In 1848 he took
part
  in the War of Independence, acting as field chaplain to the volunteers of his county and seeing several battles; but the unfortunate close of that heroic struggle silenced his poetic vein for a considerable time, and when in 1852 and 1853 he gave vent to his patriotic grief in some masterly allegories on the state of oppressed
Hungary
 , he was twice arrested by the Austrian authorities. After being released he published his Virdgregek (" Legends of
Flowers
  "), a collection of poems showing
great
 
imagination
  and love of nature. Soon after this he became oppressed with melancholy and abandoned this branch of poetry. He published three volumes of sermons, " which," says his biographer, Charles Szasz,
Protestant
 
bishop
  of Budapest, " are among the best in Hungarian literature, and will favourably compare with those of Robertson, Monod or Parker." His collected poetical works were published at Budapest in 1870, and again in 1885.


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