| Jozef Ignác Bajza | |
| Birth Date: | 5 March 1755 |
| Birth Place: | Peredmér, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg monarchy (now Predmier, Slovakia) |
| Death Place: | Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| Known For: | wrote the first novel in Slovak |
Jozef Ignác Bajza (Hungarian: Bajza József Ignác; 5 March 1755 – 1 December 1836) was a Slovak writer, satirist and Catholic priest in the Kingdom of Hungary.
He is best known for his novel René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (original, modern spelling René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti), which was the first novel written in Slovak.[1] The second volume of the novel was purchased almost entirely by church authorities; few copies of it survive.[2] The second volume was confiscated by the church censors because it was explicitly critical of both church and secular authorities.[3] He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.
Rozličných veršuv knižka prvňa (unpublished)
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi (first volume)
René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi
Anti-Fándly (work written against Juraj Fándly)
Kresťánské katolícké náboženstvo... ďíl 1.–5. (five volumes)
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata, jednako-konco-hlasné a zvuko-mírne
Slovenské dvojnásobné epigrammata. Druhá knižka obsahujícá zvuko-mírné
Veselé účinki, a rečeňí, které k stráveňu trúchľivích hoďín zebral a vidal… (book of anecdotes, satirical and humorous short stories)
Prikladi ze svatého Písma starího a novího Zákona (second volume issued in 1820)