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FAY, ANDREAS (1786-1864), Hungarian poet and author, was born on May 3o, 1786, at Kohany (Zemplin), and studied law at the Protestant college of Sarospatak. His Mesa (Fables), first published at Vienna in 1820, caused him to be regarded as the Hungarian Aesop. He wrote numerous poems, plays, romances and tales. In 1835 Fay was elected to the Hungarian diet, and for a time led the opposition. He died on July 26, 1864.

His earlier works were collected at Budapest (8 vols.,

. His poems appear in the collections Bokreta (Nosegay) (Budapest, 1807) and Fris Bokreta (Fresh Nosegay) (Budapest, 1818). His Mesek were translated into German by Petz (Raab, 1821), and partly into English by E. D. Butler, Hungarian Poems and Fables (1877) .

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