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Miklós Jósika

Died in 1865

Miklós Jósika was born in Torda on 28 April 1794, the son of a Transylvanian baron, and was raised by his grandmother. He studied law in Kolozsvár, joined the imperial army, distinguished himself on the Mincio in 1814 and took part in the French campaign of 1815, before resigning in 1818 to marry. Settled in Pest, he became the first great Hungarian novelist there and headed the Kisfaludy Society. A member of the National Defence Committee in 1848, he went into exile after the defeat, living in Brussels and then in Dresden, where he died on 27 February 1865.

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