MICHAEL TOMPA
\mˈa͡ɪkə͡l tˈɒmpə], \mˈaɪkəl tˈɒmpə], \m_ˈaɪ_k_əl t_ˈɒ_m_p_ə]\
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A Hungarian poet; born at Rimaszombat, in the county of Gomor, Sept. 29, 1819; died July 30, 1868. He wrote: "Folk Tales and Popular Sayings" (1846); several allegorical poems, among them "The Stork" (1847), expressing the popular sympathy with the coming revolution; "Stories of the Flowers" (1854); "Mathias Szuhay".
By Charles Dudley Warner
