48 Facts About Ferenc Kazinczy

Ferenc Kazinczy was born in Ersemjen, Bihar, Kingdom of Hungary.

Ferenc Kazinczy studied during that time at the College of Debrecen.

Ferenc Kazinczy's well educated and enlightened father, experiencing rare susceptibility, was delighted with his son, so he taught him and communicated with him in Latin and German.

Ferenc Kazinczy continued his language studies in Kesmark in 1768 in a preparatory class.

Ferenc Kazinczy broadened his knowledge with the idylls of Salomon Gessner and the poems of Vergilius, Horace, Anacreon.

Ferenc Kazinczy did not neglect his theological studies, and even at home they frequently debated over theological topics during lunch and dinner.

Ferenc Kazinczy turned slowly from theological to more secular and national topics and prepared a short geographical description of the country.

Ferenc Kazinczy studied philosophy and law during his first years.

Ferenc Kazinczy understood Bessenyei's response as a liberating letter for the profession of an author.

Ferenc Kazinczy was happy finding the contact with one of the most prominent authors in Hungarian literature of that time.

At that time Ferenc Kazinczy followed the thoughts of Salomon Gessner, Christoph Martin Wieland and David Baroti Szabo.

Ferenc Kazinczy turned his back on the religious thesis and "useless" theological studies.

Between 1779 and 1781 Ferenc Kazinczy joined the laic, deist perception of religion which was free of dogmas.

Ferenc Kazinczy was still working on the translations of Salomon Gessner's idylls and showed them to Raday and Baroczi.

The fact that Ferenc Kazinczy was working a lot on the translations of Gessner's maudlin, sentimental idylls, was partly brought by the sentimental trend at the time, but on the other hand, Ferenc Kazinczy intended to practice the Hungarian prose in the depiction of emotions and expression of fond moods.

Ferenc Kazinczy found himself soon in a more lively intellectual and political life in Pest and became interested in the church policies of Joseph II which were born in the spirit of absolutism.

Miklos Beleznay, Jozsef Teleki, Gedeon Raday and Laszlo Pronay were working on the preparation of the Patent of Toleration in 1781 just when Ferenc Kazinczy became their trustworthy man.

From 1785 to 1790 Ferenc Kazinczy was known as the "apostle of renewing Hungarian education".

Ferenc Kazinczy lived in Kassa, travelled a lot in Upper and Eastern Hungary, established and controlled schools.

Ferenc Kazinczy's superiors were satisfied with him and his results.

Ferenc Kazinczy took over 79 functioning schools as he started working in his position.

Ferenc Kazinczy paid particular attention to the content and stylistic fidelity, accuracy, and musical rhythm of the language.

Ferenc Kazinczy's desires were tense between Terez Radvanszky and Zsuzsanna Kacsandy.

Ferenc Kazinczy moved the figure and scene of Kayser's original novel into the role of his friends and into the scenes of their frequent gatherings which showed a rare example of personal self-expression in translation.

However Ferenc Kazinczy received criticism from conservative writers and from his teachers in Sarospatak.

Ferenc Kazinczy recommended the title Magyar Parnassus instead of Magyar Museum and thought of a belles-lettres-like magazine with translations and critics.

Ferenc Kazinczy wrote his essays under the name Vince Szephalmy.

Ferenc Kazinczy faced two problems that threatened the existence of his journal and led to its closure.

Ferenc Kazinczy went to Kassa, and later to Buda when the efforts of Hungarian acting intensified there.

The next emperor, Leopold II abolished the common schools in 1791 and Ferenc Kazinczy's office was cancelled.

Ferenc Kazinczy lost his job for the reason that "I am not a Roman Catholic", he wrote later in a letter.

Ferenc Kazinczy did not want to apply for a job as an officer again.

Ferenc Kazinczy returned to Pest on a ship, and after ten days he went to Szekesfehervar to meet Benedek Virag and Adam Paloczi Horvath.

Ferenc Kazinczy published one after another his translated and original pieces: Helikoni viragok 1791.

Ferenc Kazinczy made an intense attack on the existing order in his translation of Christoph Martin Wieland's Sokrates mainomenos oder die Dialoge des Diogenes von Sinope which was published in 1793.

Ferenc Kazinczy liked the idea of the "bloodless revolution" which the movement propagated.

Ferenc Kazinczy was brought to Buda and had to wait for the judgement in the Franciscan monastery of Buda.

Ferenc Kazinczy lived in a damp, underground jail and got so sick that he could not get up from his bed.

Ferenc Kazinczy used as pen a kneaded tin piece from the window.

On June 28,1801, Ferenc Kazinczy received amnesty from the king, who set him free and allowed him to return home.

Ferenc Kazinczy spent a total of 2387 days in prison.

Ferenc Kazinczy eternalized this part of his life in his book Fogsagom naploja.

Ferenc Kazinczy was constantly struggling with financial difficulties, since after his imprisonment, he had to clear the accounts he was charged with, and later he had to raise his children.

Ferenc Kazinczy, known for possessing great beauty of style, was inspired greatly by the masterpieces of Lessing, Goethe, Wieland, Klopstock, Ossian, La Rochefoucauld, Marmontel, Moliere, Metastasio, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cicero, Sallust, Anacreon, and many others.

Ferenc Kazinczy writes in his diary why he chose Sophie:.

Ferenc Kazinczy taught other children of friends beside her own.

The youngest son of Ferenc Kazinczy became a soldier and later an army colonel.

Ferenc Kazinczy was afterwards named the Fifteenth Martyr of Arad.