Hungarian Enlightenment is a natural continuation of European Enlightenment movements. It has been spread simultaneously in Hungary as an intellectual and religious movement like Humanism, Renaissance and Reformation. The first period of Enlightenment in Hungary starts in 1772 by Bessenyei’s entry into the literary life and ends with the execution of Martinovics in 1795, who was the leader of Hungarian Jacobins. The second period is till the beginning of reform movements in 1825. The most important issues of Hungarian Enlightenment were the language reform, the question of national independence and the idea of Hungarian nation-state
