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50 000 Forint Ferenc Kazinczy
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 50 000 Forint |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGYAR KÖZTÁRSASÁG BP. Széphalom 50000 FORINT 2009 (Translation: Republic of Hungary) |
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| Reverse script | Latin, Latin (cursive) |
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Ferenc Kazinczy spent nearly seven years imprisoned in the Habsburg fortress at Kufstein and Munkács after his involvement in the Martinovics Jacobin conspiracy of 1794 — a sentence that paradoxically gave him the isolation to develop the linguistic reform program that would reshape written Hungarian. Released in 1801, he launched a decades-long campaign to modernize and standardize the language, a project controversial enough to fracture Hungarian literary circles into bitterly opposed factions well into the 1820s.
The 2009 issue marked the 250th anniversary of his birth.