János Fogarasi (1801 – 1878) was a Hungarian jurist and

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, born at Kázsmárk, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary. In 1829, he was admitted to the

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, in 1848 became Councilor in the Hungarian Finance Ministry, and subsequently President of the Council of Commerce and a judge of the Supreme Court. He wrote on Hungarian

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and finance (''The Hungarian Law of Trade and Exchange'', 1840; ''The Hungarian Bank'', 1848), but is best known for the great ''Dictionary of the Hungarian Language'' (six volumes, 1861–1874), prepared under the auspices of the

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(from 1861 to 1866 in collaboration with

Gergely Czuczor Gergely Czuczor (17 December 1800 – 9 September 1866) was a Hungarian Benedictine monk, a poet and linguist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Baptized István (the Hungarian equivalent of ''Stephen'') he took Gergely (''Gregory'') ...

). This work is very inclusive and continues to be regarded as standard, despite the fact that it often is at variance with the principles of modern

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* 1801 births 1878 deaths Jurists from the Austrian Empire Jurists from Austria-Hungary 19th-century Hungarian writers 19th-century philologists 19th-century jurists Hungarian philologists Hungarian jurists People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County 19th-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub