József Bajza
József Bajza (born January 31, 1804 in Szűcsi in Heves County , † March 3, 1858 in Pest ) was a Hungarian poet and writer .
Life
Bajza studied in Pest and worked on Károly Kisfaludy's paperback Aurora as early as 1823 , which he edited himself from 1830 to 1837 after the latter's death. Although he had become a chancellor at the Reichstag in 1825 and a lawyer in Pest in 1829, he still devoted himself mainly to poetry, and his poems published in Pest in 1835 ( Versei , 2nd ed. 1842) ranked him among the best Hungarian poets.
In the critical sheets , which he published in the Athenaeum from 1831 to 1836 , and the Figyelmező ("observer"), which he published from 1837 to 1843, he exerted a positive influence on the developing Hungarian literature through severe criticism. He gave the Hungarian drama important impulses by publishing the Foreign Stage (Pest 1830) and later as artistic director of the National Theater, which opened in Pest in 1837 (see his work Szózat a pesti magyar színház ügyében , Ofen 1839). He was a founding member of the Kisfaludy Society .
Later he devoted himself almost exclusively to historical topics and published a Történeti Koenyvtar (“Historical Library”, Pest 1843–45, six volumes) as well as a Uj Plutarch (“New Plutarch”, Pest 1845–1847) adapted from German; but his Világtörténet ("Weltgeschichte", Pest 1847) was only a fleeting compilation of the works of Friedrich Christoph Schlosser , Arnold Hermann Heerens and Karl von Rotteck, as well as those of other German historians.
In 1847, Bajza took over the editing of her political paperback Ellenőr ("The Controller", Leipzig 1847) on behalf of the opposition , and after March 1848 Kossuth appointed him editor of the Kossuth 'Hirlapja (July to December 1848). In this position, however, he did not develop a happy editorial talent. He had been a full member of the Hungarian Academy and the Kisfaludy Society since 1832 , but fell into an incurable mental illness in 1850. He died in Pest on March 4, 1858. His collected works, in which a more intelligent than energetic poetic talent is revealed, appeared in two volumes (Pest 1852).
His daughter Helene von Beniczky-Bajza (1840–1905) was also a writer.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bajza, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- József Bajza , in: A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (Hungarian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bajza, József |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szűcsi |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1858 |
| Place of death | pest |