Juraj Fándly ( or ''György Fandl''; 21 October 1750 – 7 March 1811) was a Slovak writer, Catholic priest and entomologist (bee-keeper) in the

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Life

He was born in

Častá Častá (, ) is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Pezinok District in the Bratislava Region, on the foothills of the Little Carpathians. The village is best known for the Červený Kameň Castle, which is above the village. His ...

(Cseszte),

into a craftsman-farmer's family. His father died soon after his birth, and mother moved to the neighbouring village of Doľany (Ompitál), where he also visited elementary school. He later studied at a

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'' gymnasium'' in

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(Szentgyörgy), later studied theology in

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(today part of

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) and

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(Nagyszombat). Due to his weak health he wasn't accepted into any religious order. In 1776 he was ordained and started working as a chaplain in

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(Szered) (1776), for a short time in Lukáčovce (Lakács) (1780), finally working as a priest in

Naháč Naháč () is a village and municipality of Trnava District in the Trnava region of Slovakia. Famous people *Juraj Fándly Juraj Fándly ( or ''György Fandl''; 21 October 1750 – 7 March 1811) was a Slovak writer, Catholic priest and entom ...

(Nahács) from 1780 to 1807. In the meantime he also worked as a secretary in the ''Slovenské učené tovarišstvo'' (Slovak Educated Brotherhood) (1792). Later, he retired to his home back in Doľany, where he lived until his death in 1811, and composed poetry.

Works

* Dúverná zmlúva medzi mňíchom a ďáblom (1789) n intimate treaty between the monk and the Devil- the first major work in the Bernolák's

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standard * Piľní domajší a poľní hospodár (1792-1800) aborious house and field farmer* Zelinkár (1793) erbalist* Príhodné a svátečné kázňe (1795-1796) ccasional and feat sermons* Compendiata historia gentis Slavae (1793) concise history of the Slovak nation* O úhoroch a i včelách rozmlúváňí (1801) discussion about fallows and also about bees* Slovenskí včelár (1802) he Diligent House

Works online

''Anti-Fándly aneb Dúverné Zmlúwánj mezi Theodulusem, tretího Franciskánúw rádu bosákem, a Gurem Fándly, ...''
W Halle: .n. 1789. 62 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library * FÁNDLY, J., BAJZA, J. I., BERNOLÁK, A.br>''Ešče Ňečo o Epigrammatéch, anebožto Málorádkoch M. W. P. Gozefa Bagza nowotného slowenského Epi Grammatistu ...''

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.n.

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15 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library

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Juraj Fándly
Slovak writers 18th-century Hungarian male writers 18th-century Hungarian writers 19th-century Hungarian male writers People from Pezinok District 1750 births 1811 deaths Slovak Roman Catholic priests Slovak entomologists Hungarian-language writers {{Slovakia-writer-stub