Jozef Ignác Bajza

Jozef Ignác Bajza (Bajza József Ignác; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was a Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.

He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak. The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive. The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities. He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.

Works

 * 1782
 * Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)


 * 1784
 * René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first volume)


 * 1785
 * René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi


 * 1789
 * Anti-Fándly (work written against Juraj Fándly)


 * 1789–1796
 * Kresťánské katolícké náboženstvo... ďíl 1.–5. (five volumes)


 * 1794
 * Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata, jednako-konco-hlasné a zvuko-mírne


 * 1794
 * Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata. Druhá knižka obsahujícá zvuko-mírné


 * 1795
 * Veselé účinki, a rečeňí, které k stráveňu trúchľivích hoďín zebral a vidal… (book of anecdotes, satirical and humorous short stories)


 * 1813
 * Prikladi ze svatého Písma starího a novího Zákona (second volume issued in 1820)

Works online

 * Anti-Fándly aneb Dúverné Zmlúwánj mezi Theodulusem, tretího Franciskánúw rádu bosákem, a Gurem Fándly, ... W Halle: [s.n.], 1789. 62 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library
 * BAJZA, J. I., FÁNDLY, J., BERNOLÁK, A. Ešče Ňečo o Epigrammatéch, anebožto Málorádkoch M. W. P. Gozefa Bagza nowotného slowenského Epi Grammatistu ... [Pole Eliziské]: [s.n.], [1791]. 15 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library
 * BAJZA, J. I., BERNOLÁK, A. Nečo o epigrammatech, anebožto Malorádkoch Gozefa Ignáca Bagzi, Dolnodubowského Pána Farára, oprawdiwím Slowákom k Uwažováňú predložené ... Žilina: Štefan Prisol, 1794. 36 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library