Ferenc Faludi

{{Short description|Hungarian poet}}

Ferenc Faludi (born in Güssing on 11 April 1704; died in Rechnitz on 18 December 1779) was a Hungarian poet who has been referred to as "the father of the new Hungarian lyric."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOK0vb9WwaIC&pg=PA154 |title=Hungarian Authors; a Bibliographical Handbook by Albert Tezla, pg 154 |isbn=9780674426504 |accessdate=2013-11-30|last1=Tezla |first1=Albert |year=1970 |publisher=Harvard University Press }} Because of Suppression of the Society of Jesus{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Cvrq-Vs-2wC&pg=PA268 |title=The Mediterranean in History edited by David Abulafia, pg 268 |isbn=9781606060575 |accessdate=2013-11-30|last1=Abulafia |first1=David |year=2011 |publisher=Getty Publications }} he switched to being in charge of a poorhouse. Before that he had been known as a Jesuit educator, writer, and translator. He spoke near-fluent German and translated William Shakespeare's The Tempest into Hungarian. In addition to that he collected Hungarian folk poetry.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WSiAjJBUoEC&pg=PA113 |title=In Quest of the 'miracle Stag' edited by Adam Makkai, pg 113 |isbn=9780964209404 |accessdate=2013-11-30|last1=Makkai |first1=Adam |year=1996 |publisher=Atlantis-Centaur }}