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A celebrated Hungarian writer and patriot; born in the county of Fejervar in 1800; died in 1855 while engaged on a translation of Shakespeare. He published "King Solomon", a drama in 1821, which was followed by a poem, "The Triumph of Fidelity" (1827); "King Sigismund", a drama (1824); "The Flight of Zalan", an epic poem; the tragedy "Kont" (1825). His narrative poems entitled "Cserhalom", and "The Enchanted Valley", established his reputation as the first Hungarian poet of his time. He was a contributor to Kisfaludy's Aurora, and was for several years editor of a journal called The Repository of Science. In 1830 he published a patriotic lyric entitled "The Appeal", for which he received from the Hungarian Academy a ducat a line.