GABOR [

GABRIEL]

See also:

• GABOR [GABRIEL] DOBRENTEI (1786-1851)

DOBRENTEI (1786-1851)  , Hungarian philologist and antiquary, was born at Nagyszollos in '786 . He completed his studies at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, and was afterwards engaged as a tutor in Transylvania . At this period he originated and edited the Erdelyi Muzeum, which, notwithstanding its important influence on the development of the Magyar language and literature, soon failed for want of support . In 1820 Dobrentei settled at Pest, and there he spent the rest of his life . He held various official posts, but continued zealously to pursue the studies for which he had early shown a strong preference . His great work is the Ancient Monuments of the Magyar Language (Regi Magyar Nyelvemlekek), the editing of which was entrusted to him by the Hungarian Academy . The first volume was published in 1838 and the fifth was in course of preparation at the time of his death . Dobrentei was one of the twenty-two scholars appointed in 1825 to plan and organize, ender the presidency of Count Teleki, the Hungarian Academy . In addition to his great work he wrote many valuable papers on historical and philological subjects, and many biographical notices of eminent Hungarians . 'these appeared in the Hungarian translation of Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon . He translated into Hungarian Macbeth and other plays of Shakespeare, Sterne's letters from Yorick to Eliza (1828), several of Schiller's tragedies, and Moliere's Avare, and wrote several original poems . Dobrentei does not appear to have taken any part in the revolutionary movement of 1848 .

He died at his

country house, near Pest, on the a8th of March 1851 .