János Arany
János Arany [ ˈjaːnoʃ ˈɒrɒɲ ] (born March 2, 1817 in Salonta (Hungarian Nagyszalonta ), Bihar County , Kingdom of Hungary ; † October 22, 1882 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian poet .
Life
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Arany comes from the impoverished petty nobility. At first he worked as a teacher , actor and notary . But in 1846 he had a great success with his first novella . In the same year he finished his masterpiece Toldi , for which he received the Kisfaludy Prize. In Toldi the story of a popular hero is told, through which he promoted the emerging national consciousness of the Hungarians. During the Hungarian struggle for freedom of 1848/49 he wrote patriotic poems for this reason.
His passion turned into pessimism , and in 1877 he retired from various activities. All that remained for him was lyrical and epic work, which for him was a link between folk poetry without writing and the more abstract art literature. Arany completed the Toldi trilogy with Toldi's Evening (1854) and Toldi's Love (1879).
In Geszt there is now a small János Arany museum in his former home.
His son László Arany was also a poet.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Arany, Janos . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 58 ( digitized version ).
- Arany Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 27 f. (Direct links on p. 27 , p. 28 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about János Arany in the catalog of the German National Library
- János Arany: János Arany poems
Individual evidence
- ↑ János Arany poems. In: Treasures of Hungarian Poetry Volume IV. 2020, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arany, Janos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salonta |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1882 |
| Place of death | Budapest |