Mór Jókai (1825 - 1904)

Mór Jókai [ˈmoːr ˈjoːkɒi], born Móric Jókay de Ásva (19 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. After his father's death when Jókai was 12, his family had meant him to follow the law, his father's profession, and accordingly the youth, always singularly assiduous, plodded conscientiously through the usual curriculum at Kecskemét and Pest (part of what is now Budapest), and as a full-blown advocate actually succeeded in winning his first case.