Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos

Sebestyen Tinódi Lantos ( " lute player Sebastian of Tinód "; * 1510 in Tinód, † 1556 in Sarvar ) was a singer and lutenist an important representative of the Hungarian epic poetry of his time.

His place of birth is not known exactly. There are Tinód in county White Castle and an eponymous place in the historic county of Baranya in question.

Journey

Little is known from Tinódis younger years. He came from a middle-class family and received an education. He could read Latin and notes. Probably he was in service and training of Bálint Török, who is known as heroic warriors of the Battle of Mohács.

Tinódis first surviving work, the story of Jason, 1535-1539 originated in Dombóvár. In his version, a soldier is unfit due to a battle injury for further military service.

Until 1541 Tinódi lived at the court of Bálint Török in Szigetvár, according to his own account in great appreciation. The conquest of Buda and the fall of his master in captivity were a turning point in his life. From that point on, he wrote political seals. In his poems, he stressed the need for a unified and resolute struggle against the Ottomans. He lived for several years in this part of the country. When the Ottomans scaling up of them filled area, left Tinódi Transdanubia and moved to Kosice, where he started a family. From there he went out to political meetings and locations of battles. He held his experiences firmly in verse. To this end, he also composed tunes that he read in the company of his lute. In many places, it was learned only from his songs credible information about events in distant parts of the country.

In 1545 he learned in the context of the National Assembly in Nagyszombat the Palatine Tamás Nádasdy know whose favor the chronicler won with the sounds soon. In the relatively peaceful period 1546-1551 he worked themes from the older Hungarian history and foreign issues. The events of the Ottoman campaign of 1552 immortalized Tinódi again in detailed descriptions. He sought out locations of individual castle sieges and set the collected data together down to the smallest detail. Many details are known only from his songs. Even after the triumphant defense of Eger he entered the castle immediately before "The true song of the battle for the castle of Eger " (Eger vár viadaljáról Való enek ) and " sum of the history of Eger " ( Egri historiának summája ) wrote.

The reputation Tinódis also reached the court of Ferdinand I, who raised him on 23 August 1553 a recommendation Nádasdys to the nobility and gave him a coat of arms.

He also had a good relationship with István Dobo, the lord of the castle of Eger. As for this Vajda - a medieval ruler in Transylvania - was appointed, followed him also Tinódi. There he wrote the song from the "History of Transylvania ", in which he recorded the time of Johann Zápolyas death by the year 1551. 1554 appeared in Cluj an edition of his collected works, entitled " Cronica ". The following year he returned from Transylvania, and died 1556 in Sarvar.

His work

Tinódis life's work contains 1200 lines of verse, which is a relatively small scale in relation to the Hungarian literature of the 16th century. The content of his verses is factual and does not contain embellishments images. Overall, they are of low artistic quality, and in pre- registered form rather cumbersome. The urge for detailed reproduction assumes a level that is comparable to the monotony of files. Already in his time, the core of his work was more by journalists than of poetic meaning.

Tinódi himself refers in the preface of the Cronica following objective:

In the work of important events of his time in verse to Tinódi tried more about authenticity than to the artistic value of his work. With the verse and song form he could reach the warriors, where his work was intended in the first place. As to Tinódis time only a very few could read, he reached a wider audience with singing.

As historian Tinódi plays a more prominent role. He worked mainly on the entire history of Hungary from 1541 to 1552. His descriptions are exactly applicable in all testable cases. Other authors also there to capture the eventful history of the 16th century Hungarian in writing took. The case focused either on the environment to their homes or on the history of the whole country. One of them was Antal Verancsics (* May 29, 1504, † June 15, 1573 ), the then Bishop of Eger. He collected himself historical records and kept them carefully on. The in the legacy of the bishop -to-find works, however, are mainly suggestive and give subjective memories. You do not reach the authenticity and objectivity of Tinódis work. The texts from Verancsicss legacy are also written in Latin, while Tinódi was the first major chronicler in Hungarian.

Swell

• Révai Nagy Lexikona. Révai, Budapest 1911-1935.
• Szakály, Ferenc: Lantos és krónikás. Tinódi. In: Glatz, Ferenc (ed.): História. No. 2, 1981. Contents of this issue