Jokai Maurice or Moritz, Hungarian novelist and voluminous author, born at Komorn; published his first novel, “Working Days,” in 1845; in 1848 took a prominent part in the Hungarian struggle, but afterwards devoted himself to literature; wrote over 300 books, novels, romances, dramas, essays, and poems, and edited several newspapers; his work resuscitated Hungarian literature; was in his old age an able debater in the House of Representatives; (b. 1825).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Joinville, Jean, Sire de * Jonah