Juraj Fándly ( hu, György 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 (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

Piarist The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools ( la, Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the ...

'' gymnasium'' in

Svätý Jur Svätý Jur (; german: Sankt Georgen; he, Yergen; hu, Szentgyörgy; formerly ''Jur pri Bratislave'') is a small historical town northeast of Bratislava, located in the Bratislava Region. The city is situated on the slopes of Little Carpathians ...

(Szentgyörgy), later studied theology in Buda (today part of

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) and

Trnava Trnava (, german: Tyrnau; hu, Nagyszombat, also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a ''kraj'' ( Trnava Region) and of an '' okres'' ( T ...

(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

Sereď Sereď (; hu, Szered ) is a town in southern Slovakia near Trnava, on the right bank of the Váh River on the Danubian Lowland. It has approximately 15,500 inhabitants. Geography Sereď lies at an altitude of above sea level and covers an are ...

(Szered) (1776), for a short time in Lukáčovce (Lakács) (1780), finally working as a priest in Naháč (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 ...''
ole Eliziské .n. 791 15 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library

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Juraj Fándly
Slovak writers 18th-century Hungarian male 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