Imre Madách, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Imre Madách

Hungarian writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1823

Place of Birth: Dolná Strehová, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1864

Profession: writer, poet, politician, playwright

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (20 January 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.
The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of the 19th-century Hungarian poets.