Miklós Jósika

Miklós Jósika (German Baron Nicolaus Jósika ; born April 28, 1794 in Turda , Transylvania , † February 27, 1865 in Dresden ) was a Hungarian novelist.

Miklós Jósika

Life

Miklós Jósika (spr. Johschi-) embarked on a military career and made it to the position of captain, then left the service and in 1834, after unfortunate debuts in politics, turned exclusively to literature.

His first literary attempts appeared in 1834 under the title: Irány (" Tendenz ") and Vázlatok ("Sketches"). In addition to political and fictional articles for newspapers and compilations, Jósika published around 60 volumes of novels, which testify to a deep study of the Hungarian character and folk life and are written in a lively style, to increasing applause.

Nikolaus Josika's complete works were published in 14 volumes as early as 1839 (Pesth: Heckenast, 1839–1841, translated from Hungarian by V. Schwarz).

Jósika took a lively part in the revolution of 1848/49, was consequently forced to flee abroad after the disaster of Világos and took up residence in Brussels, where he devoted himself to writing again.

Of the novels published since then, the following are particularly noteworthy: Egymagyar család a forradalom alatt ("A Hungarian family during the revolution", Braunschweig 1851, 4 volumes) and the German Mailly family (Leipzig 1852, 2 volumes).

Because of his revolutionary activities, Jósika was hanged in effigy with Lajos Kossuth and 35 others in Pest in September 1851 , but was later pardoned. Having lived in Dresden since 1864, he died there on February 27, 1865. Almost all of his novels have also been translated into German and other languages. Only 4 volumes of his memoirs (Pest 1865) have appeared.

Works

• Abafi (3rd edition, 1851).
• Zrinyi a költő ("The poet Zrinyi", 1843, 4 volumes).
• Az utólsó Bátori (“The Last Bátory”, 2nd edition, 1840, 3 volumes).
• A csehek Magyarországban (“The Bohemians in Hungary”, 2nd edition, 1845, 4 volumes).
• Jósika István (“Stephan Jósika”, 1847, 5 volumes).
• On the history of the Hungarian struggle for freedom . 2 volumes, Kassel 1852.
• The witches of Szeged. Novel . Verlags-Comptoir, Wurzen 1863.
• Második Rákóczi Ferencz . Plague 1861.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Jósika, Nikolaus Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, pp. 271–276 ( digital copy ).
• Jósika von Branyicska Miklós Baron. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 136 f. (Direct links on p. 136 , p. 137 ).
• István Torjai-Szabó: Jósika von Branyicska, Miklós Baron . In: Mathias Bernath, Felix von Schroeder (Ed.), Gerda Bartl (Red.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Oldenbourg, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-486-49241-1 , pp. 302-304.

Web links

• Literature by Miklós Jósika in the catalog of the GVK - Common Union Catalog