Endre Ady
| Endre Ady | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
22 November 1877 Érmindszent Szilágy County, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 27 January 1919 (aged 41) Budapest |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation | Poet, journalist |
Endre Ady (archaically English: Andrew Ady, November 22, 1877 – January 27, 1919) was a Hungarian poet.
Ady was born in Érmindszent, Szilágy County (part of Austria-Hungary at the time; now a village in Satu Mare County, Romania, called Adyfalva in Hungarian and Ady Endre in Romanian). He belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family. Endre was the second of three children. The eldest, a girl named Ilona, died at an early age.
Between 1892-1896, Ady attended the Calvinist College in Zalău. On 22 March 1896, he published his first poem in the Zalău newspaper Szilágy.
He later studied law at the Reformed College in Debrecen. After finishing his studies, he became a journalist. He published his first poems in a volume called Versek (Poems) in 1899. He soon grew tired of Debrecen (the town later became a symbol of backwardness in his poetry) and moved to Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania), a city with a rich cultural life. In articles written in 1902 for the local newspaper Nagyváradi Napló, Ady paid close attention to the social features of his time. "Wesselényi and a poor peasant! Perhaps unwittingly, master Fadrusz has carved a satire", he wrote, referring to the opening of the Wesselényi Monument.
...
Wikipedia