The history of the Hungarian educational tale from 1786 to 1807

The literature of the Hungarian educational tale (fable, animal tale) was undoubtedly greatly influenced by Western European, primarily German and, through it, French fairy tale literature. Its history is broadly in line with the history of the German educational tale. A XVI. The first two storytellers imitating Aesopus in the 17th century: after Heltai and Pesti in the 17th century. century we have no trace of the tale. The XVIII. 19th century German educational tale antecedents scheme XVII. century, but also in the XVI. to be found in the German fairy tales of the 19th century. The appearance of the educational fairy tale in Hungarian literature dates back to the time when it reached great popularity, prevalence and high degree in the neighboring Western (German, French) literature: in 1767 a collection of fairy tales in Hungarian was first published, Aesofus's One Hundred and Fifty Tales' s Life. (Another edition in 1774 entitled Aesopus' Tales in Cluj-Napoca.)