Ferenc Kölcsey

Ferenc Kölcsey

Ferenc Kölcsey (August 8, 1790August 24, 1838) was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current inside the Austrian Empire.

Biography

Kölcsey was born in Szatmárcseke, Hungary. He was orphaned at an early age and handicapped by the loss of an eye. At age fifteen, he made the acquaintance of Ferenc Kazinczy and adopted his linguistic reforms. In 1809 Kölcsey went to Pest and became a notary to the Royal board. He was disenchanted with the office, and, while present in the Cseke in Szatmár ", he devoted his time to aesthetical study, poetry, criticism, and the defense of Kazinczy's theories.

Kölcsey's early metrical pieces contributed to the "Transylvanian Museum" did not attract much attention, while his severe criticisms of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, János Kis, and especially Dániel Berzsenyi, published in 1817, rendered him very unpopular. From 1821 to 1826 he published many separate poems of great beauty in the "Aurora, Hebe, Aspasia", and other magazines of polite literature. He joined Pál Szemere in a new periodical, styled "Élet és Literatúra" ("Life and Literature"), which appeared from 1826 to 1829, in 4 vols., and gained for Kölcsey the highest reputation as a critical writer.

From 1832 to 1835 he sat in the Hungarian Diet, where his extreme liberal views and his eloquence soon rendered him famous as a parliamentary leader. Elected on November 17, 1830 a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he took part in its first grand meeting; in 1832, he delivered his famous oration on Kazinczy, and in 1836 that on his former opponent Dániel Berzsenyi. In 1838, when the opposition leader Miklós Wesselényi was thrown into prison upon a disputed charge of treason, Kölcsey conducted his defense with noted eloquence, but without success. He died about a week afterwards at Cseke, from internal inflammation.

Kölcsey's strong moral sense and deep devotion to his country are reflected in his poems, his often severe but masterly literary criticism, and his funeral orations and parliamentary speeches. His collected works, in 6 volumes, were published at Pest, 1840–1848, and his journal of the Diet of 1832–1836 appeared in 1848. The first collected edition of all his works appeared in 1886–87.

A monument erected to the memory of Kölcsey was unveiled at Szatmárnémeti on September 25, 1864. His poem "Hymnusz" (1823), evoking the glory of Hungary's past, became the national anthem of Hungary.

References

1911 "In turn, it cites as references:"
**J. Ferenczy and J. Danielik, "Magyar írók" (2 vols., Pest, 1856–1858)
**G. Steinacker, "Ungarische Lyriker" (Leipzig and Pest, 1874)
**F. Toldy, "Magyar költők élete" (2 vols., Pest, 1871)


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