György Bessenyei

György Bessenyei was born in Bercel, in Szabolcs county, in 1746 or 1747, into a noble family. In 1765 he entered the Hungarian noble guard in Vienna, where he learned foreign languages, and he travelled in Italy in 1768 and 1769. He left the guard in 1773 to represent the Protestants of Hungary at court, converted to Catholicism on 15 August 1779 and became court librarian. He left Vienna in 1782, withdrew to Bihar, to his estate of Pusztakovácsi, and died there on 24 February 1811.

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• TheatreÁgis tragédiájaGyörgy Bessenyei · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature