Komrno - People from Komrno, Hans Selye, MR Jkai, Franz Lehr, Szilrd People from Komrno, Hans Selye, MR Jkai, Franz Lehr, Szilrd Nmeth, Kroly Czanik, Pter Molnr, Moriz Ludassy, Ludwig Lichtnmeth, Kroly Czanik, Pter Molnr, Moriz Ludassy, Ludwig Lichtschein (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mr Jkai, born Mric Jkay de sva (19 February 1825 5 May 1904), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was born in Komrom, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Komrno, Slovakia, southern part of her remains in Hungary). His father, Jzsef, was a member of the sva branch of the ancient Jkay family; his mother was a scion of the noble Pulays. The lad was timid and delicate, and therefore educated at home till his tenth year, when he was sent to Pozsony (today Bratislava), subsequently completing his education at the Calvinist college at Ppa, where he first met Sndor Petfi, Sndor Kozma, and several other brilliant young men who subsequently became famous. After his father's death when Jkai was 12, his family had meant him to follow the law, his father's profession, and accordingly the youth, always singularly assiduous, plodded conscientiously through the usual curriculum at Kecskemt and Pest (part of what is now Budapest), and as a full-blown advocate actually succeeded in winning his first case. The drudgery of a lawyer's office was uncongenial to the ardently poetical youth, and, encouraged by the encomiums pronounced by the Hungarian Academy upon his first play, Zsid fi (The Jewish Boy), he flitted, when barely twenty, to Pest in 1845 with an MS. romance in his pocket; he was introduced by Petfi to the literary notabilities of the Hungarian capital, and the same year his first notable romance Htkznapok (Working Days), appeared, first in the columns of the Pesti Divatlap, and subsequently, in 1846, in book form. Htkznapok, despite its manifest crudities and extravagances, was instantly recognized by all the leading critics as a work of original genius, and in the following year Jkai ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=774337