Kelemen Mikes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Kelemen Mikes, born in Zabola in 1690 he became freedom fighter against Habsburg, escaped to Poland, France and at least Turkey. He is referred to as the "Hungarian Goethe" who became famous after writing "Letters from Turkey" in Rodosto where he lived in exile with the Transylvanian Prince Rákoczi until 1761. With his letters from Rodosto, Kelemen Mikes laid the foundations of the Hungarian prosaic literature, and he is regarded as the first Hungarian prosaic author.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../k/e/l/Kelemen_Mikes_f984.html"
In other languages