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Hungarian literature

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hungarian literature Until the 19th cent. Latin was Hungary's literary language. The Funeral Oration (c.1230) is the oldest surviving work in Magyar; some 14th and 15th cent. chronicles also exist. The Reformation prompted various translations of the Bible. The poets Bálint Balassa (late 16th cent.) and Miklós Zrinyi and István Gyöngyössi (17th cent.) were succeeded in the 18th cent. by Vitéz Mihály Csokonai and Ferenc Faludi. In the last quarter of the same century, Hungarian literature was given fresh life with the work of György Bessenyei... Read more

German literature
...by German, Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, and Swiss authors, as well...German: From Early to Medieval Literature Heroic legends, among them...influenced the course of German literature, and Martin Luther 's translation...resulting in a flowering of German literature with strong courtly and ... Read more

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...remarkable 16th-century flowering of learning and literature in the Adriatic trading city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik...Junije Palmotić (1606-57). The Eighteenth Century Literature suffered a decline in the 18th cent., when Dubrovnik...1742-1811) introduced fable writing into Yugoslav literature. The ... Read more

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