János Batsanyi

János Batsányi, painted by Friedrich Heinrich Füger , 1808 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest).

Memorial plaque in the Kufstein Fortress

János Batsányi (born May 9, 1763 in Tapolca , Hungary , † May 12, 1845 in Linz ) was a Hungarian poet .

Life

A civil servant since 1785, he was imprisoned  in the fortress Špilberk in 1794 for “participating in a conspiracy” - he was one of the Hungarian Jacobins . In 1803 he was pardoned and moved to Vienna , where he worked for a bank. There he married the Austrian poet Gabriele von Baumberg in 1805 .

After Batsányi had translated Napoleon's proclamation into Hungarian in 1809 , as a sympathizer of Napoleon, he had to seek safety from the Austrian imperial authorities, which he could only find in Paris. After Napoleon's defeat, Batsányi was extradited to Austria, where he was first imprisoned in Vienna and then in exile in Linz, where his wife accompanied him. He died there in 1845.

Works

• Magyar Museum (1788–1792, with David Baróti Szabó and Ferenc Kazinczy )
• Translations of Ossian

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Bacsányi, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 111 f. ( Digitized version ).
• László Márton : The hiding place of Minerva. Folio Verlag, Vienna 2008. ISBN 3-85256445-X ; ISBN 978-3-85256445-6

Web links

Commons : János Batsányi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Views of Linz Gisela Wabro: Writer János Batsányi (accessed on May 15, 2012)