Gábor Döbrentei

In 1814 he originated and edited the Erdélyi Muzeum, which, notwithstanding its important influence on the development of Hungarian language and literature, soon failed for want of support.

[2] He held various official posts, but continued zealously to pursue the studies for which he had early shown a strong preference.

[3][2] Döbrentei was one of the twenty-two scholars appointed in 1825 to plan and organize, under the presidency of Count Teleki, the Hungarian Academy.

In addition to his great work he wrote many valuable papers on historical and philological subjects, and many biographical notices of eminent Hungarians.

[2] He translated into Hungarian Macbeth and other plays of Shakespeare, Sterne's Letters from Yorick to Eliza (1828), several of Schiller's tragedies, and Molière's A vare, and wrote several original poems.