Jozef Ignác Bajza

Jozef Ignác Bajza
Born(1755-03-05)5 March 1755
Died1 December 1836(1836-12-01) (aged 81)
Known forwrote the first novel in Slovak

Jozef Ignác Bajza (Hungarian: Bajza József Ignác; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was a Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.

He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak.[1] The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive.[2] The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities.[3] He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.

Works

  • 1782
Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)
  • 1784
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first volume)
  • 1785
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi
  • 1789
Anti-Fándly (work written against Juraj Fándly)
  • 1789–1796
Kresťánské katolícké náboženstvo... ďíl 1.–5. (five volumes)
  • 1794
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata, jednako-konco-hlasné a zvuko-mírne
  • 1794
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata. Druhá knižka obsahujícá zvuko-mírné
  • 1795
Veselé účinki, a rečeňí, které k stráveňu trúchľivích hoďín zebral a vidal… (book of anecdotes, satirical and humorous short stories)
  • 1813
Prikladi ze svatého Písma starího a novího Zákona (second volume issued in 1820)

Works online

References

  1. ^ Kamusella, T. (16 December 2008). The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Springer. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-230-58347-4.
  2. ^ Petro, Peter (13 May 1997). History of Slovak Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-7735-6598-2.
  3. ^ Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-90-272-3452-0.