Education
He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna.
He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna.
Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer His sensibility, social charm, liberal ideas (he was one of the earliest of the Magyar freemasons) and personal beauty opened the doors of the best houses to him. In 1792, together with Count Ráday, he founded the first theatrical society at Buda.
He maintained that Pest, not Pozsony should be the literary center of Hungary, and in 1794 founded the first Hungarian quarterly, Urania, but it met with little support and ceased to exist in 1795, after three volumes had appeared.
Kármán, who had long been suffering from an incurable disease, died in the same year. Kármán also wrote two satires and fragments of an historical novel, while his literary program is set forth in his dissertation A nemzet csinosodása ("Beautification of the Nation").