Andrija Dugonic

The native form of this personal name is András. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

András Dugonics
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Language	Hungarian

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Andrija Dugonić (Hungarian: András Duganics; Serbian Cyrillic: Андрија Дугонић, born on 17 October and died on 25 July in Szeged), was a Hungarian Piarist writer, university professor, mathematician, and writer.

Biography

Born in 1740, András Dugonics junior's father was merchant András Dugonics (1715–1780), of noble Serbian origin, who converted to Roman Catholicism when he married Katalin Imre in 1739. Between 1747 and 1760, he was elected as a member of the outer council of the city of Szeged. After that, he was a city councilor, guardian of orphans, and captain of the Free Royal City of Szeged between 1768 and 1771 until his death. Young András received a careful and thorough education. He showed such excellent progress in his school studies that he also attracted the attention of the religious orders of Szeged. After graduating from college in 1756 -- despite his parents' opposition -- he joined the Piarist order. After years of monastic probation, he studied philosophy in Nagykároly and theology in Nitra. He then taught in various towns and cities in Hungary, and continued to render distinguished service to the Magyar language and popular literature. To demonstrate that his native language lent itself to scientific culture, he employed it in writing a mathematics textbook (1784) and in composing two classical poems on Troy and Ulysses (1774–1780). Then he published (1788) his novel "Etelka", a story of the early days of national history, soon followed by other novels and several historical dramas, which contributed powerfully to developing Hungarian patriotic feeling.

Dugonics Square

In Szeged city, there is a monument to András Dugonics, after whom the square is also named and whom Croats call Andrija Dugonić; the monument shows András holding a book in his hand with Etelka written on it; it is the first novel, a bestseller, in Hungarian literature. In addition to writing novels, András was also a university professor as well as a mathematician; more than the work Etelka, it is considered that his contribution to the Hungarian language is precisely in mathematics since he invented Hungarian expressions for mathematical concepts.

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