József Kármán

József Kármán was born in Losonc on 14 March 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He studied law in Pest, then lived in Vienna, where his mistress was Countess Markovics, whom people have often wanted to recognise in the heroine of his book. A lawyer in Pest and a freemason, he founded the first theatrical society of Buda in 1792 with Count Pál Ráday. In 1794, with Lajos Schedius and Gáspár Pajor, he launched the quarterly review Uránia, which ceased in 1795 after three issues. He died in his native town the same year, at the age of twenty-six.

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• NovelFanni hagyományaiJózsef Kármán · 1794not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain