Kisfaludy Society

The Kisfaludy Society was established in 1837 in memory of the brothers Károly Kisfaludy and Sándor Kisfaludy Hungarian Cultural Association. The existing in 5000 guilders excess of a collection to put the deceased in Balatonfüred a monument, was used to suspend prices for aesthetic treatises and literary works, and soon the total grew by voluntary donations and the proceeds from the works Kisfaludy to significantly.

The Kisfaludy company expanded it every year its membership, and its activities not only called by the prices distributed annually produced many dignified work, but also practiced by their yearbooks, their critical journal and the publication of ancient and modern Hungarian masterpieces etc. significant influence on the development of the young Hungarian literature.

They also gave dignified translations of ancient and modern masterpieces, including the dramatic poems of Shakespeare, Molière, among other things, the Don Quixote of Cervantes, and published collections of Hungarian and in translation from Slovak and Ruthenian folk songs.

One of the founders was the Hungarian writer Gregor Czuczor