Gregor Czuczor

Monument in Nové Zámky (Slovakia)

Gregor Czuczor (Czuczor Gergely) (born December 17, 1800 in Andód , Neutra County , † September 9, 1866 in Pest ) was a Hungarian writer and friar.

biography

In 1817 Czuczor entered the Benedictine order and studied in Győr and in the Central Seminary of Pest. In 1824 Czuczor was ordained a priest. He taught in both Győr and Komárno . In 1835 he became vice secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and co-founder of the Kisfaludy Society .

In 1837 the Provincial of the Order recalled him on the basis of a court order from Pest and his literary activity was subjected to stricter censorship . From 1845, when he returned to Pest, he worked on a large dictionary for the academy as an editor.

In 1849 he was sentenced to imprisonment for his revolutionary poem Alarm (Riadó) and sent to Kufstein in 1850 . As early as 1851, however, he was pardoned on the basis of an intervention by the Academy President and returned to Pest.

He wrote his heroic poems in classical meter and he became the main representative of the patriotic-national direction. It was through him that popular poetry was introduced into Hungarian literature.

A cousin of Czuczor was Ányos Jedlik , also a Benedictine priest and man of letters .

Works (excerpt)

Az augsburgi ütközet (The Battle of Augsburg), 1824
Az aradi gyülés (The Assembly of Arad), 1828
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The complete works were published in 1899 by I. Zoltványi.

Appreciation

The high school and college of the Benedictines ( Czuczor Gergely Bencés Gimnázium és Kollégium ) in Győr is named after Gregor Czuczor .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Czuczor, Gregor . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 120–122 ( digitized version ).
Czuczor, Gregor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 165.

Web links

Commons : Gergely Czuczor - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Czuczor Gergely Bencés Gimnázium és Kollégium accessed on March 21, 2010 (Hungarian)

personal data
SURNAME	Czuczor, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian writer and friar
DATE OF BIRTH	17th December 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Andód , Neutra County
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1866
Place of death	pest

[1] Czuczor Gergely Bencés Gimnázium és Kollégium accessed on March 21, 2010 (Hungarian)