János Apáczai Csere

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János Apáczai Csere

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contribution to Hungarian literature

In Hungarian literature: The 17th century
…of the 17th century was János Apáczai Csere. His chief work was a Hungarian encyclopaedia in which he endeavoured to sum up the knowledge of his time. The work, published at Utrecht in 1653, marked a development in technical vocabulary.
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