Ferenc Faludi

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Ferenc Faludi , also Franz Faludi (born April 11, 1704 in Güssing , Eisenburg county , † December 18, 1779 in Rechnitz ) was a Hungarian poet and scholar.

Jesuit school in Güns

Life

After studying in Güns , he joined the Jesuit order and became a university professor in Graz , Linz and Vienna . From 1741 to 1746 he was the Hungarian confessor in Rome, from 1753 to 1773 he was the director of the grammar school in Pressburg and at times the librarian of the Jesuit college. After the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, he moved to Rechnitz, where he died in 1779.

Faludi is regarded as the last representative of the Hungarian Baroque at the transition to the Rococo , his style is characterized by deliberate adoptions from the vernacular. He wrote songs , eclogues and the Jesuit tragedy "Konstantin Porphyrogennetos". Most notable among his translations is that of the hand oracle by Baltasar Gracián .

Awards

Memorial plaque on Faludi's birthplace in Güssing
  • The Faludital in the Geschrittenstein -Írottkő Nature Park near Rechnitz is named after him.
  • Faludigasse in Rechnitz
  • Faludistraße in Güssing with a memorial plaque

literature

  • Laszlo Szörenyi: Ferenc Faludi's literary significance. In: Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Provincial Archives, Provincial Library and Provincial Museum (ed.): Burgenländische Heimatblätter . No. 41/4, fixed edition Ferenc Faludi 1704–1779, Eisenstadt 1979, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Faludi, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 141 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Probst: Franz Faludi, poet between the Baroque and Enlightenment, mediator between Europe and Hungary. In: Franz Faludi, poems. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1979 (Hungarian / German).
  • Paul Wimmer: Faludi's poems, literature and criticism. 1981.

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SURNAME Faludi, Ferenc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faludi, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian poet and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Güssing , Eisenburg county
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1779
Place of death Rechnitz