Sándor Petőfi (pronounced [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi], 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849), Hungarian poet and revolutionary, was the author of the Nemzeti dal, the poem said to have inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in which he played a key role. He is Hungary's national poet.
Petőfi was born at Kiskőrös in the Kingdom of Hungary. His birth certificate, written in Latin, gives his name as Alexander Petrovics. His butcher-innkeeper father...
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Sándor Petőfi (pronounced [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi], 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849), Hungarian poet and revolutionary, was the author of the Nemzeti dal, the poem said to have inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in which he played a key role. He is Hungary's national poet.
Petőfi was born at Kiskőrös in the Kingdom of Hungary. His birth certificate, written in Latin, gives his name as Alexander Petrovics. His butcher-innkeeper father István has been variously described as an assimilated Serb or a Slovak. His mother, Mária Hrúz, was an immigrant from the Slovak inhabited part of Upper Hungary. Despite his ethnic origin, he had a very strong self-awareness of being Hungarian, becoming the spiritual leader of the revolutionary radicals who wanted to dethrone the Habsburgs and free Hungary from their rule.He not only magyarised his name but strenuously disclaimed any Slovak origins. He even denied his heavily Slovak-settled birthplace and his parents' Lutheran religion.
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