biography
pronunciation:
[petoefee]
| biography:
| Poet, born in Kiskörös, SC Hungary. He was successively actor, soldier, and literary hack, but by 1844 had secured his fame as a poet, his most popular work being János vitéz (1845, Janos the Hero). In 1848 he threw himself into the revolutionary cause, writing numerous war songs, and fell in battle at Segesvár. |
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