1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TOMPA. MIHALY [MICHAEL] (1817-1868), Hungarian lyric poet, was born in 1817 at Rima-Szombat,in the county of Gomor, his father being village bootmaker. He studied law and theology in Saros-Patak, and subsequently at Budapest; and, after many vicissitudes, at the age of thirty he accepted the post of Protestant minister in Beje, a small village in his native county, whence, in two years, he removed to Kelemer, and four years later to Hanva, in the county of Borsod, where he remained till his death in 1868. At the ag…
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