EOS'TRA. The Teutonic goddess of Spring. the name of whose festival has been transferred to the Christian Easter (q.v.).
dOzsEr. Baron (1813-71). A distinguished Hungarian statesman and author, who has lett a lasting imprint upon both the literary and political life of his country. He was Corn at Buda. studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the university of that. city, and when barely twenty entered upon an of ficial career as vice-notary at Pressburg, but :soon abandoned it in favor of literary pur suits. He had already attracted some atten tion through a translation of Goethe's (lints eon Berlichingen, two original comedies, Kritik,u sok (The Critics), and lidzasula (The Matri monially inclined), and a tragedy, Boszti (Re venge). After an extended tour through Ger many. France. England. Switzerland, and the Netherlands, he returned to his father's estate and there devoted himself to writing his famous novel Karthausi (The Carthusian), which was at once hailed with delight by the public and critics alike (1842). About this time E6tvos began to be prominent in poli tics. When the Liberal Party became divid ed, in ]844, into Municipalities and Centralists, he became, as member of the House of Magnates, one of the most earnest supporters of the latter party, and a frequent. contributor to Kossuth's organ. the Pesti Hirlap, his stirring articles be ing later collected in a volume under the title of Reform. Quite in line with his active interesting
public reforms is the theme of his second ro mance, A fain jegyzbje (The Village Notary), in which he painted the abuses growing out of the old system of public- administration in Hungary, based upon county elections, and which enjoyed no less rogue than his earlier novel. It has been translated into German by MaiIfith, and into English by Otto Wenekstern (1850). It was followed, in 1847-48, by his Ma gyarorszog 1514-ben (Hungary in 1514), an his torical romance.
Upon the formation of the national Hun garian Ministry, after the revolution of March 15, 1S4S, Eiitviis was appointed Minister of Public Instruction, but after the stormy scenes of the following September resigned his of fice and retired to Munich, where lie lived for three years, and where his literary labors bore important fruit in the form of a phil omaphieal work upon 7'he influence of the Ideas of the V inctreath rentury upon State and Society. lie returned to Jungary in 1851, was made viee-president of the Hungarian Academy in 1855 and president in 1866. In I SI; 1 lie rci;ntered political life, founded in 1865 a political weekly. Politi•ai Hetilap, and in 1867 became once more Minister of Pub lic Instruction, an office which he filled until his death.