Gergely Czuczor, a Hungarian author, born at Andod, county of Neutra, Dec. 17, 1800, died in Pesth, Sept. 9, 1866. He was a Benedictine monk, and from 1825 to 1835 was professor at the colleges of Raab and Comorn; but after he had removed to Pesth, where in 1835 he was elected assistant librarian and keeper of the archives of the Hungarian academy, the monks found fault with some of his poems, and he was compelled to relinquish his office and his public literary pursuits, and reenter the monastery. In 1844 he became the editor of the academical dictionary, in which he had advanced to the letter I when the work was interrupted by the revolution of 1848. Czu-czor embraced the popular movement, and was sentenced in 1849 to six years' imprisonment for his Biado, a Hungarian Marseillaise. At the intercession of the president of the academy, Count Joseph Teleky, he was enabled to resume in prison his labors on the dictionary. After the capture of Buda he was released by the Hungarian army; but on the defeat of the revolution he preferred prison to exile, and gave himself up to the victors. He was transferred to the state prison of Kufstein, where he remained until 1850, when he was pardoned.

While at Kufstein he devoted himself to his dictionary (of which five volumes prepared under his direction were published before his death), and to a Hungarian translation of Tacitus. His epic poems, " The Battle of Augsburg," "The Assembly of Arad," and "Hunyady," are among his most renowned productions. He also published a translation of Sparks's "Life of Washington".