Bajza,

Bajza, JOSEPH, a Hungarian poet and prose-writer, was born January 31, 1804, at Szücsi, in Hevcs. After his studies at Pesth, he practised there as an advocate, and early gained by his first volumes of verse, published in 1835, a place among the best Hungarian lyric poets. As a contributor to the critical journals, and as editor of the Figyelmező (Observer) from 1837-43, he exercised a beneficial influence on the rising literature of Hungary. He translated a collection of foreign dramas (1830); and published an Historical Library (from the German) in 6 vols., a Modern Plutarch, and a Universal History. He died at Pesth, 4th March 1858.