PULSZKY, FERENCZ AUREL (18141897 )

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PULSZKY, FERENCZ AUREL (18141897 ) , Hungarian politician and author, was born on the 17th of September 1814 at Eperjes. After studying law and philosophy at the high schools of his native town and

Miskolcz

MISKOLCZ

, he travelled abroad. England particularly attracted him, and his fascinating book, Aus dem Tagebach eines in Grossbritannien reisenden Ungarns (Pesth, 1837), gained for him the membership of the Hungarian

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. Elected to the Reichstag of 1840, he was in 1848 appointed to a

financial

FINANCIAL

post in the Hungarian government, and was transferred in like capacity to Vienna under Esterhazy. Suspected of intriguing with the revolutionists, Pulszky fled to Budapest to avoid arrest. Here he became an active member of the committee of national defence, and when obliged to fly the country he joined Kossuth in England and with him made a tour in the United States of America. In collaboration with his wife he wrote a narrative of this voyage, entitled White, Red, Black (3 vols., London, 1853). He was condemned to death (1852) in contumaciam by a council of war. In 186o he went to Italy, took

part

PART

in Garibaldi's expedition to Aspromonte (1862), and was interned as a prisoner of war in Naples. Amnestied by the emperor of Austria in 1866, he returned

home

and re-entered public life; was from 18671876, and again in 1884, a member of the Hungarian Diet, joining the

Deak

DEAK, FRANCIS (FERENCZ), (1803-1876)

party. In addition to his political activity, he was president of the literary section of the Hungarian

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, and director of the National Museum at Budapest, where he became distinguished for his archaeological researches. He employed his

great

GREAT

influence to promote both art and science and Liberal views in his native country. He died on the 9th of September 1897. Among his writings are Die Jacobiner in Ungarn (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1851) and Eletem es Korom (Pest, r88o), and many

treatises

TREATISES

on Hungarian questions in the publications of the Academy of Pest.
Some Reminiscences of Kossuth and Pulszky were published by F. W. Newman in 1888.

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