Ferenc Kazinczy
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Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today his name is connected
Portrait by János Donát, 1812
Portrait of Zsuzsanna Bossányi de Nagybossány (1740–1812), the mother of Ferenc Kazinczy
The library of the College of Sárospatak where Kazinczy spent his time reading and learning
Ferenc Kazinczy lived in Kassa during his practice of law (1779–1780) and then later as an inspector of education (1785–1790).
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the Ugric group. It has been spoken in the region of modern-day Hungary since the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in the late 9th century.
The "Funeral Sermon and Prayer". This text, dated to 1192, is the oldest longer Hungarian-only document. Earlier, Hungarian sentences and words appeared in Latin context.
The Old Hungarian poem "Laments of Mary"
A copy of the Hussite Bible, in the Codex of Munich, dated to 1466