Michael Tompa
Michael Tompa ( Hungarian : Tompa Mihály), (born September 28, 1817 in Rimaszombat in Gömör County , † July 30, 1868 in Hanva ) was a Hungarian poet .
Tompa studied in Rimaszombat and Sárospatak . In 1845 he became a Protestant pastor in Beje in Gömörer Komitat, in 1848 chaplain in the Honvéd Army and in 1852 pastor to Hanva (Gömörer Komitat), where he worked until the end of his life.
His first independent work was Népregék, Népmondák ("Folk tales, folk tales", Pest 1846). In the same year, the Kisfaludy Society honored his comic poetic story Szuhay Mátyás with a prize and elected him as a member. The first edition of his poems appeared in 1847.
In the years immediately after the revolution , he gave hope to the depressed mood with his allegorical poems. The political violence reacted and so he had to appear before the court martial in Kosice in 1852 . In 1858 he was elected a member of the Hungarian Scientific Academy , in 1868 he received the great academic prize (200 ducats) for his poetry.
A complete edition of his poems appeared in 5 volumes ( Pest 1881).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Tompa, Michael . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 46th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1882, pp. 113–116 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tompa, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tompa, Mihály |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rimaszombat in Gömör County |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1868 |
| Place of death | Hanva |