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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAJLATH, JANOS, or See also:JOHN, See also:COUNT (1786-1855)  , Hungarian historian and poet, was See also:born at Pest on the 5th of See also:October 1786 . First educated at See also:home, he subsequently studied See also:philosophy at See also:Eger (Erlau) and See also:law at GySr (Raab), his See also:father, See also:Count See also:Joseph See also:Majlath, an See also:Austrian See also:minister of See also:state, eventually obtaining for him an See also:appointment in the public service . Majlath devoted himself to See also:historical See also:research and the See also:translation into See also:German of Magyar folk-tales, and of selections from the See also:works of the best of his See also:country's native poets . Moreover, as an See also:original lyrical writer, and as an editor and adapter of old German poems, Majlath showed considerable See also:talent . During the greater See also:part of his See also:life he resided either at Pest or See also:Vienna, but a few years before his See also:death he removed to See also:Munich, where he See also:fell into a state of destitution and extreme despondency . Seized at last by a terrible infatuation, he and his daughter Henriette, who had See also:long been his See also:constant See also:companion and See also:amanuensis, drowned themselves in the See also:Lake of See also:Starnberg, a few See also:miles See also:south-See also:west of Munich, on the 3rd of See also:January 1855 . Of his historical works the most important are the Geichichte der Magyaren (Vienna, 1828–1831, 5 vols . ; 2nd ed., Ratisbon, 1852–1853) and his Geschichte See also:des osterreichischen Kaiserstaats (See also:Hamburg, 1834–185o, 5 vols.) . Specially noteworthy among his metrical See also:translations from the Hungarian are the Magyarische Gedichte (See also:Stuttgart and See also:Tubingen, 1825); and Himfy's auserlesene Liebeslieder (Pest, 1829; 2nd ed., 1831) . A valuable contribution to folk-See also:lore appeared in the Magyarische Sagen, Marchen and Erzahlungen (See also:Brunn, 1825; 2nd ed., Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1837, 2, vols.) .

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