2023200 Years since the Birth of Sandor Petofi - Miniature Sheet

Sándor Petőfi, one of the most significant figures of Hungarian literature, revolutionary, actor, was born on 1 January, 1823 in Kiskeres, todayʹs Hungary, on the territory of the then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In his short 26 years of life, he wrote more than 1,000 poems, which were translated into more than 50 languages – into Serbian for the first time by Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, in 1855, from where we count the Serbian reception of Petőfiʹs poetry.