Count Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...

Gedeon Ráday de Ráda (1 October 1713 – 6 August 1792) was a Hungarian poet, translator and nobleman. He came from the Ráday family, and was the son of Pál Ráday, the chancellor of

Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi (, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince () of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of ...

. He received an excellent education, completed by a trip in 1730 during which he visited several German universities. In 1733, he returned to his homeland and, as his father's only son, took over the management of the family estates. There he devoted himself to poetry, literary scholarship and translation. He was the first to revive the interest of the Hungarian reading world in the '' Zrinyad'', an epic poem about the fall of Szigeth and the heroic death of

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