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Zrínyi, Miklós

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Zrínyi, Miklós (1620-1664)

Hungarian poet, essayist, and military leader. His heroic epic Szigeti veszedelem/The Siege of Sziget 1651 celebrates his great-grandfather's attempt to hold the stronghold of Szigetvár in 1566 against the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I. A major figure in Hungarian baroque literature, Zrinyi was also a successful general who wrote a number of military and historical studies.


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