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Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849)
Petőfi, Alexander (pā-tė’fē). A celebrated Hungarian poet; born at Kis-Körös, near Pesth, Jan. 1, 1823; died on July 31, 1849. Among his chief works are: ‘The Wine-Bibbers’ (1842); ‘The Hangman’s Rope’; ‘Coriolanus,’ translated from Shakespeare (1848); ‘Arise, Ye Magyars’ (1848). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).