1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ERDELYI, JANOS (1814-1868), Hungarian poet and author, was born in 1814 at Kapos, in the county of Ungvar, and educated at the Protestant college of Sarospatak. In 1833 he removed to Pest, where he was, in 1839, elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His literary fame was made by his collection of Hungarian national poems and folk-tales, Magyar Nepkoltesi Gyiljtemeny, Ntpdalok es Monddk (Pest, 1846-1847). This work, published by the Kisfaludy Society, was supplemented by a dissertation upon Hungarian …
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