FALUDI, FERENC. - Hungarian poet and man of letters, Jesuit, b. 25 March 1704 at Köszeg, d. 18 Dec. 1779 at Rohoncz, after having lived almost always in Austria, at Vienna, Graz, Pressburg, Linz, Tyrnau, teaching letters, history, exegesis, philosophy. He was also director of the academic printing house of Tyrnau and librarian at Pressburg. From 1740-45 he was in Rome as confessor in the Hungarian language and a student of literature.

For his elegant prose F. is called the "Hungarian Cicero," and as a poet he was revealed, especially after his death, through the efforts of the national poet Nicholas Révay. Mention should be made of his verses Költeményes maradványi, 2 vols., Győr (1786-87); and his tales Teli elszakáh ("Winter Sledges"), Posombos 1787 won him great fame. During his lifetime, F. published several books of spiritual and civil formation, much esteemed by the nobility.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, III. coll. 537-59; G. Gáfin, F. F. (1794-79) (Publications ad historiam S. I. in Hungaria illustrandam, n. 15), Budapest 1942. Arnaldo M. Linz

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