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György Aranka (17 September 173711 March 1817) was a Hungarian writer.


Biography

He was born in Szék (today Sic, Cluj),
Szolnok-Doboka County Szolnok-Doboka was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Romania (northern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Dej, Dés (now Dej, Romania). Geo ...
, Principality of Transylvania. His father György Aranka Senior was the bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church. He studied in Marosvásárhely (today ''Târgu Mureş'' in Romania) and Nagyenyed (today ''Aiud''). For his civil profession he was a lawyer and started his career as a clerk, then worked in different positions in the courts of law of Marosvásárhely. In 1796, he became judge of the supreme court of
Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
. His activity was of very broad range and had a great importance in the Hungarian cultural history. He was an enthusiastic promoter of the Hungarian public education and the cultivation of the
Hungarian language Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Out ...
. His poems were published in the magazines '' Magyar Hírmondó'' (1780), ''Magyar Museum'' and ''Orpheus''. During the 1791 session of the Transylvanian parliament, he established the a society for the cultivation of the Hungarian language in Transylvania, and was elected its secretary. In 1792, he organized the Old Manuscript Society for the publishing of old Transylvanian mémoires. He died in Marosvásárhely.


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Hungarian writers People from Cluj County 1737 births 1817 deaths Writers from the Austrian Empire Hungarian people from the Austrian Empire {{Hungary-writer-stub