About Mihály Fincicky
Lived 1842 – 1916 (aged 73–74). Mihály Fincicky was a lawyer and anthropologist.
Mihály Fincicky (22 September 1842 – 1916) was a Hungarian lawyer, translator, collector of folk songs and folk tales, lifelong mayor of Ungvár (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) since 1891.
Biography Fincicky was born on 22 September 1842 in Čepeľ, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia). He and his colleagues collected 339 folk-songs and 92 folk tales. The original version of this collection of Rusyn songs is unavailable. The collection has been published in Hungarian by Kisfaludy Társaság in 1870 as a part of the series Hazai, nem magyar ajkú népköltészet tára. After retiring, he translated 40 of the fairy tales collected by him. These were published in 1970.
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Hungarian lawyer, translator, mayor of Uzhhorod (1842–1916)
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