Born: 17-Nov-1733
Birthplace: Debrecen, Hungary
Died: 28-Jan-1805
Location of death: Debrecen, Hungary
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: Hungary
Executive summary: Dorottya

Hungarian poet, born at Debreczen in 1773. Having been educated in his native town, he was appointed while still very young to the professorship of poetry there; but soon after he was deprived of the post on account of the immorality of his conduct. The remaining twelve years of his short life were passed in almost constant wretchedness, and he died in his native town, and in his mother's house, when only thirty-one years of age. Csokonai was a genial and original poet, with something of the lyrical fire of Petöfi, and wrote a mock heroic poem called Dorottya or the Triumph of the Ladies at the Carnival, two or three comedies or farces, and a number of love poems. Most of his works have been published, with a life, by Schedel (1844-1847).

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