Imre Madách
Imre Madách ( pronunciation: [ imrɛ mada ː ʧ ], born January 20, 1823 in Alsósztregova, Neograd County, Kingdom of Hungary, now: Dolna Strehová, Slovakia, † October 5, 1864 ) was a Hungarian playwright.
Life
Madách came from an Upper Hungary landowner family. He first studied law and became a civil servant in the Komitatsbehörde his home. After the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848 he was arrested because he had hidden a persecuted. During this detention failed his marriage. The more time he spent on his estate withdrawn and dealt with literature and his writings. In this state, he began his dramatic masterpiece: The Tragedy of Man ( Az ember tragédiája ). As part of the settlement with Austria, he became in 1860 a member of parliament in Budapest. He completed the tragedy of man in exchange János Arany having known of it made in the literary circles of the time. This influence of Goethe's Faust work has been translated into more than 18 languages and performed worldwide.
Works
- A civilizátor, The civiliser, 1859, a ' written in the style of Aristophanes satirical comedy that mocks the bureaucracy of absolutism
- Az ember tragédiája, The Tragedy of Man 1861 German for the first time in 1865 (translated by Ludwig von Dóczi )
- Mozes, Moses, 1861