Jozef Ignác Bajza

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| birth_place = Peredmér, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg monarchy (now Predmier, Slovakia)

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Jozef Ignác Bajza ({{langx|hu|Bajza József Ignác}}; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was a Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.

He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak.{{Cite book |last=Kamusella |first=T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzkWDAAAQBAJ |title=The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe |date=2008-12-16 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-58347-4 |pages=134 |language=en}} The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive.{{Cite book |last=Petro |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNPp4q-u3HUC |title=History of Slovak Literature |date=1997-05-13 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-6598-2 |pages=45–46 |language=en}} The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities.{{Cite book |last1=Cornis-Pope |first1=Marcel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pV6sFB-KuU8C |title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries |last2=Neubauer |first2=John |date=2004-01-01 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-90-272-3452-0 |pages=313 |language=en}} He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.