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Religion
  
Roman Catholic

Name
  
Jozef Bajza

Role
  
Writer


Jozef Ignác Bajza Jozef Ignác Bajza

Born
  
5 March 1755 (
1755-03-05
)
Peredmer, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy (now Predimer, Slovakia)

Known for
  
wrote the first novel in Slovak

Died
  
December 1, 1836, Bratislava, Slovakia

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

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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 language. He is buried in the St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.

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Establishment of the Slovak Learned Society (oil by Andrej Kováčik 1934) - in the middle Anton Bernolák, sitting patron of the Bernolák family future cardinal Alexander Rudnay, to the right of Bernolák Jozef Ignác Bajza and Juraj Fándly.

Works

  • 1782
  • Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)
  • 1784
  • René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first part)
  • 1785
  • René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (second part, unpublished)
  • 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)

    References

    Jozef Ignác Bajza Wikipedia