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

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