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MIHALY VITEZ CSOKONAI (1773-1805)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 592 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CSOKONAI (1773-1805)  , Hungarian poet, was See also:born at See also:Debreczen in 1773 . Having been educated in his native See also:town, he was appointed while still very See also:young to the professorship of See also:poetry there; but soon after he was deprived of the See also:post on See also:account of the immorality of his conduct . The remaining twelve years of his See also:short See also:life were passed in almost See also:constant wretchedness, and he died in his native town, and in his. See also:mother's See also:house, when only See also:thirty-one years of See also:age . See also:Csokonai was a genial and See also:original poet with something of the lyrical See also:fire of See also:Petofi, and wrote a See also:mock-heroic poem called Dorottya or the See also:Triumph of the Ladies at the See also:Carnival, two or three comedies or farces, and a number of love-poems . Most of his See also:works have been published, with a life, by Schedel (1844-1847) .

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