József Bajza

József Bajza (31 January 1804 – 3 March 1858) was a Hungarian poet and critic.

He was born at Szűcsi and was first published in Károly Kisfaludy's Aurora, a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837.

He also contributed substantially to the Kritikai Lapok, the Athenaeum, and the Figyelmező (Observer).

In 1830 he published translations of some foreign dramas, Ausländische Bühne, and in 1835 a collection of his own poems.

He then, for some years, devoted himself to historical writing, and published in succession the Historical Library (Történeti Könyvtár), 6 vols., 1843–1845; the Modern Plutarch (Uj Plutarch), 1845–1847; and the Universal History (Világtörténet), 1847.