Mihály Csokonai Vitéz

Mihály Csokonai Vitéz was born in Debrecen on 17 November 1773; his father, a barber and surgeon, died when he was a child. A pupil at the town's Calvinist college, he taught there from 1794, then was dismissed from it for indiscipline in 1795. He studied law at Sárospatak, published in Pozsony, during the Diet of 1796, the verse gazette Diétai Magyar Múzsa, and fell in love in Komárom with Julianna Vajda, the “Lilla” of his poems, whom her parents married to another man. After teaching at the college of Csurgó, he returned to Debrecen, where he died on 28 January 1805.

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• PoetryDorottyaMihály Csokonai Vitéz · 1804not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain