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Sándor Petőfi
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Sándor Petőfi (ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi []; né Petrovics; Alexander Petrovič; Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary of mostly ethnic Slovak origin, He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemzeti dal (National Song), which is said to have inspired the revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war for independence from the Austrian Empire. It is most likely that he died in the Battle of Segesvár, one of the last battles of the war.
Petőfi was born on the New Year's morning of 1823, in the town of Kiskőrös, Kingdom of Hungary. The population of Kiskőrös was predominantly of Slovak origin as a consequence of the Habsburgs' reconstruction policy designed to settle, where possible, non-Hungarians in areas devastated during the Turkish wars. His birth certificate, in Latin, gives his name as "Alexander Petrovics", where "Alexander" is the Latin equivalent of the Hungarian "Sándor". His father, István (Stephanus) Petrovics, was a village butcher, innkeeper and he was a second-generation Slovak. However two of his grandparents had family names of unknown origin, and one of germanic (Kamhall) origin, immigrant to the Great Hungarian Plain. Mária Hrúz, Petőfi's mother, was a servant and laundress before her marriage. She was of 3/4 Slovak descent, (one grandmother had the magyar name Bucskay) and spoke Hungarian with something of an accent. Petöfi was 3/4 slovak at most and ca 1/2 at least, considering the family names. But ethnic magyars tend to have one germanic and one slavic grandparent in general, so it could be an exaggeration to consider him of pure slovak extraction, claims usually from pan-slavic circles. Petőfi's parents first met in Maglód, married in Aszód and moved to Kiskőrös a year before the birth of the poet.
The family lived for some time in Szabadszállás, where his father owned a slaughterhouse.
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