page_title: Sándor Petőfi
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Sándor Petőfi / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: Szendrey Júlia Forrás: http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01903/html/index815.html
context_page_description: Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemzeti dal, which is said to have inspired the revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war for independence from the Austrian Empire. It is most likely that he died in the Battle of Segesvár, one of the last battles of the war.
context_section_description: In 1846, he met Júlia Szendrey in Transylvania. They married the next year, despite the opposition of her father, and spent their honeymoon at the castle of Count Sándor Teleki), the only aristocrat among Petőfi's friends. Their only son Zoltán was born on 15 December 1848.
caption: Júlia Szendrey, Petőfi's wife
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