It is well-known that one cannot really pin down regular 18th century works on the theory of language by Hungarian scholars. As Lajos Csetri's findings show Hungarian neologism was more driven by practical motivations than ...

Joseph II is known as the 'travelling emperor'. He not only travelled widely in Europe but took pains to acquint himself personally with the various provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy. During the period of the co-recency ...

Judit Dukai Takács became a celebrated poet in the begining of the 19th century via her popular poems. She was compared to Sappho, significant figures of the contemporary literary life appreciated her works, and pleaded ...

The paper focuses on those Hungarian texts of Enlightenment popular education from the late 18th century, which were written for shepherds. It was due to the concurrence of different factors that shepherds came into the ...

The first publication from1814 contains two extensive programme-like studies: Philosophiára vezető értekezések by András Szabó and Eredetiség 's jutalomtétel by Gábor Döbrentei. There isn't much correspondence between the ...

The (new) Hungarian speaking literature was born at the „sentimentalist crossover of centuries", among masses of versified name-day greetings, sumptuous wedding and funeral poetry and translations. The three authors presented ...