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JANOS ARANY (1817-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARANY (1817-1882)  , the greatest poet of See also:Hungary after See also:Petofi, was See also:born at Nagy-Szalonta on the 2nd of See also:March 1817, the son of Gyorgy See also:Arany and Sara Megyeri; his See also:people were small Calvinist yeomen of See also:noble origin, whose See also:property consisted of a See also:rush-thatched cottage and a tiny See also:plot of See also:land . An only son, See also:late born, seeing no companions of his own See also:age, See also:hearing nothing but the voices of his parents and the See also:hymns and prayers in the little Calvinist See also:chapel, Arany See also:grew up a See also:grave and See also:gentle, but by no means an ignorant See also:child . His precocity was remarkable . At six years of age he went to school at Szalonta, where he read everything he could See also:lay his hands upon in Hungarian and Latin . From 1832 to 1836 Arany was a See also:preceptor at Kis-Ujszallas and See also:Debreczen, still a voracious reader with a wider See also:field before him, for he had by this See also:time taught himself See also:French and See also:German . Tiring of the monotony of a scholastic See also:life, he joined a troupe of travelling actors . The hardships he suffered were as nothing compared with the pangs of See also:conscience which plagued him when he thought of the despair of his See also:father, who had meant to make a pastor of this prodigal son, to whom both See also:church and See also:college now seemed for ever closed . At last he borrowed sixpence from the See also:stage-manager and returned See also:home, carrying all his property tied up in a See also:hand-kerchief . Shortly after his home-coming his See also:mother died and his father became See also:stone-See also:blind . Arany at once resolved that it was his See also:duty never to leave his father again, and a conrectorship which he obtained at this time enabled them to live in modest comfort . In 184o he obtained a notaryship also, and the same See also:year married Juliana Ercsey, the penniless See also:orphan daughter of an See also:advocate . The next few happy years were devoted to his profession and a See also:good See also:deal of See also:miscellaneous See also:reading, especially of See also:Shakespeare (he learnt See also:English in See also:order to compare the See also:original with his well-thumbed German version) and See also:Homer .

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