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János Fekete, count of Galànta

(1741–1803), Hungarian aristocrat

Son of Gróf György Fekete, Hungarian lord chief justice, and his wife, Anna née Niczky. A poet and political radical; author of Mes rapsodies ou recueil de differens essais de vers et de prose (1781), the collection of odes A békesség (1798) and other works.

Biographical note by Electronic Enlightenment Project.

Updated January 2009.


EE source editions with biographical details

  • Voltaire, François Marie Arouet. Correspondence and related documents. 51 vol. Ed. Theodore Besterman. Geneva, Banbury, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968–1977. Print.

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