József Kármán, sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc (today Lučenec in Slovakia) in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni hagyományai ("Fanny's testament"). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer.

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  • József Kármán, sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc (today Lučenec in Slovakia) in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni hagyományai ("Fanny's testament"). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer. His sensibility, social charm, liberal ideas (he was one of the earliest of the Magyar freemasons) and personal beauty opened the doors of the best houses to him. He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at home in the salons of the Protestant magnates. In 1792, together with Count Ráday, he founded the first theatrical society at Buda. He maintained that Pest, not Pozsony should be the literary center of Hungary, and in 1794 founded the first Hungarian quarterly, Urania, but it met with little support and ceased to exist in 1795, after three volumes had appeared. Kármán, who had long been suffering from an incurable disease, died in the same year. The most important contribution to Urania was his sentimental novel, Fanni hagyományai, much in the style of La nouvelle Héloise and Sorrows of Young Werther, the most exquisite product of Hungarian prose in the 18th century and one of the finest psychological romances in the literature. Kármán also wrote two satires and fragments of an historical novel, while his literary program is set forth in his dissertation A nemzet csinosodása ("Beautification of the Nation").
  • Kármán József író, ügyvéd
  • Figlio di un pastore calvinista, venne educato a Losonc e a Pest, e in seguito si trasferì a Vienna. Qui fece la conoscenza della bella ed eccentrica Contessa Markovics, che fu la sua amante per un erto periodo, ma non fu, come è stato spesso supposto, l'eroina del suo famoso romanzo Fanni Hagyományai ("I lasciti di Fanny"). Successivamente fece ritorno a Pest, dove esercitò la professione di avvocato. La sua sensibilità, il fascino sociale, le idee liberali (fu uno dei primi massoni ungheresi) e la sua bellezza, gli aprirono le porte delle migliori case. Era conosciuto come l'Alcibiade di Pest, ed era particolarmente a suo agio nei salotti dei magnati protestanti. Nel 1792, assieme al Conte Ráday, fondò la prima società teatrale di Buda. Sostenne che Pest, e non Pozsony, doveva essere il centro letterario dell'Ungheria, e nel 1794 fondò il primo trimestrale ungherese, Urania, che non riscosse molto successo e cessò di esistere l'anno seguente, dopo che erano stati pubblicati tre volumi. Kármán, che da tempo soffriva per una malattia incurabile, morì quello stesso anno. Il suo contributo più importante a Urania fu il suo romanzo sentimentale, I lasciti di Fanny, scritto nello stile de La nuova Eloise e I dolori del giovane Werther. Questo lavoro rappresenta il prodotto più squisito della prosa ungherese del XVIII secolo, e uno dei migliori romanzi psicologici della letteratura. Kármán scrisse anche due satire e frammenti di un romanzo storico, mentre il suo programma letterario è delineato nella dissertazione A nemzet csinosodása.
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  • József Kármán, sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc (today Lučenec in Slovakia) in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni hagyományai ("Fanny's testament"). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer.
  • Kármán József író, ügyvéd
  • Figlio di un pastore calvinista, venne educato a Losonc e a Pest, e in seguito si trasferì a Vienna. Qui fece la conoscenza della bella ed eccentrica Contessa Markovics, che fu la sua amante per un erto periodo, ma non fu, come è stato spesso supposto, l'eroina del suo famoso romanzo Fanni Hagyományai ("I lasciti di Fanny"). Successivamente fece ritorno a Pest, dove esercitò la professione di avvocato.
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  • József Kármán
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