Jozef Ignác Bajza

Jozef Ignác Bajza (Hungarian: Bajza József Ignác; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was a Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Jozef Ignác Bajza
Born	(1755-03-05)5 March 1755 Peredmér, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg monarchy (now Predmier, Slovakia)
Died	1 December 1836(1836-12-01) (aged 81) Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Bratislava, Slovakia)
Known for	wrote the first novel in Slovak

He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak.^[1] The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive.^[2] The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities.^[3] He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.

Works

• 1782

Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)

• 1784

René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first volume)

• 1785

René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi

• 1789

Anti-Fándly (work written against Juraj Fándly)

• 1789–1796

Kresťánské katolícké náboženstvo... ďíl 1.–5. (five volumes)

• 1794

Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata, jednako-konco-hlasné a zvuko-mírne

• 1794

Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata. Druhá knižka obsahujícá zvuko-mírné

• 1795

Veselé účinki, a rečeňí, které k stráveňu trúchľivích hoďín zebral a vidal… (book of anecdotes, satirical and humorous short stories)

• 1813

Prikladi ze svatého Písma starího a novího Zákona (second volume issued in 1820)

Works online

• Anti-Fándly aneb Dúverné Zmlúwánj mezi Theodulusem, tretího Franciskánúw rádu bosákem, a Gurem Fándly, ... W Halle: [s.n.], 1789. 62 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library
• BAJZA, J. I., FÁNDLY, J., BERNOLÁK, A. Ešče Ňečo o Epigrammatéch, anebožto Málorádkoch M. W. P. Gozefa Bagza nowotného slowenského Epi Grammatistu ... [Pole Eliziské]: [s.n.], [1791]. 15 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library
• BAJZA, J. I., BERNOLÁK, A. Nečo o epigrammatech, anebožto Malorádkoch Gozefa Ignáca Bagzi, Dolnodubowského Pána Farára, oprawdiwím Slowákom k Uwažováňú predložené ... Žilina: Štefan Prisol, 1794. 36 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library

References

1. Kamusella, T. (16 December 2008). The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Springer. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-230-58347-4.
2. Petro, Peter (13 May 1997). History of Slovak Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-7735-6598-2.
3. Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-90-272-3452-0.