Jozef Ignác Bajza

Jozef Ignác Bajza (Hungarian: Bajza József Ignác; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was an ethnically Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Jozef Ignác Bajza
Born(1755-03-05)5 March 1755
Died1 December 1836(1836-12-01) (aged 81)
Known forwrote the first novel in Slovak

He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak.[1] The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive.[2] The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities.[3] He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.

Works

  • 1782
Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)
  • 1784
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first volume)
  • 1785
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi
  • 1789
Anti-Fándly (work written against Juraj Fándly)
  • 1789–1796
Kresťánské katolícké náboženstvo... ďíl 1.–5. (five volumes)
  • 1794
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata, jednako-konco-hlasné a zvuko-mírne
  • 1794
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata. Druhá knižka obsahujícá zvuko-mírné
  • 1795
Veselé účinki, a rečeňí, které k stráveňu trúchľivích hoďín zebral a vidal… (book of anecdotes, satirical and humorous short stories)
  • 1813
Prikladi ze svatého Písma starího a novího Zákona (second volume issued in 1820)

Works online

References

  1. Kamusella, T. (16 December 2008). The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Springer. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-230-58347-4.
  2. Petro, Peter (13 May 1997). History of Slovak Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-7735-6598-2.
  3. Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-90-272-3452-0.


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