MIHALY VITEZ

CSOKONAI (1773-1805)  , Hungarian poet, was born at Debreczen in 1773 . Having been educated in his native town, he was appointed while still very young to the professorship of poetry there; but soon after he was deprived of the post on account of the immorality of his conduct . The remaining twelve years of his short life were passed in almost constant wretchedness, and he died in his native town, and in his. mother's house, when only thirty-one years of age . Csokonai was a genial and original poet with something of the lyrical fire of Petofi, and wrote a mock-heroic poem called Dorottya or the Triumph of the Ladies at the Carnival, two or three comedies or farces, and a number of love-poems . Most of his works have been published, with a life, by Schedel (1844-1847) .