Alexander Lakner

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Alexander Lakner (* 1822 in Pest , Kingdom of Hungary ; † 1847 there ), also Sándor Lakner , was a Hungarian writer and poet .

Life

Alexander Lakner was born in 1822 in the city of Pest in the Kingdom of Hungary , which was part of the Austrian Empire . He broke off a theology course he had already started and instead joined the city administration in Pest as an actuary . At the age of 18, he published a collection of poems under the Hungarian title Emlékviragok ( German: memory flowers ). Later in 1845 he published a Hungarian translation of the four-volume novel St. Roche by the German writer Henriette Paalzow . Lakner died in Pest in 1847 at the age of 25. A few years later Karl Maria Benkert remembered a hundred Hungarian poets in his work Album. In own and foreign translations to the young Hungarian writer and poet. Also in Magyar irók. Életrajz-gyüjtemény. Gyüjték Ferenczy Jakab és Danielik József of the Hungarian bibliographer and entomologist Gustav Emich from 1856, Alexander Lakner is mentioned.

Works (selection)

  • Emlékviragok . Pest, 1840.
  • Translation of the four-volume work St. Roche by Henriette Paalzow . Pest, 1845.

Literature and sources (selection)

personal data
SURNAME Lakner, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lakner, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1847
Place of death Pest , Kingdom of Hungary