Imre Madách
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The native form of this personal name is Madách Imre. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January[1] 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost. The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of the 19th-century Hungarian poets.
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