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Sebestyén "Lantos" Tinódi (c. 1510, Tinăud – 30 January 1556) was a 16th-century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel.

Biography [edit]

Tinódi's chronicles about the Siege of Eger (1552)

Little is known about Sebestyén's childhood. He attended various schools and studied Latin, and excelled at sheet music. He joined the military service in 1535 and in 1539 was wounded in a battle, which rendered him ineligible for further military service. In 1541, when Turks invaded, it made a big impression on him. He became a political poet at this time, his works expressing the need to resist the Turks.

Sebestyén started a family, and visited parliament and scenes of battles, and wrote verses about these. He then began to put his poems to music and performed them to the accompaniment of a lute, which lead to his nickname, "Lantos" - the lute-player. His songs became recognized as an important chronicalization of the events of the day by Nádasdy Tamás in 1545, who recommended to Parliament that this become a public post for Sebestyén. From 1546 to 1551 there was a general period of peace, but in 1552 a new Turkish military campaign began, and this was again chronicled by Sebestyén.

In 1553, he was formally recognized by the king as a chronicler who processed the historical events of his age in a poem form, and was conferred the patent of nobility. The collected edition of his works was published in 1554. He traveled to Transylvania for a while and returned in 1555, but died shortly thereafter.

References [edit]

• Szakály Ferenc: Are a minstrel and a chronicler. Tinódi (history 1981/2)
• Révai Nagy encyclopaedia

External links [edit]

• Vass József: Tinódi Sebestyén (Vass József: Tinódi Sebestyén (Vasárnapi Újság, 1859. January 2.)
• short article Fidelio on a portal
• All his poems in Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár
• Szentmárton Szabó Géza: Tinódi chronology
• His statue in the town of Dombóvár

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