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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 533 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:BATTHYANY (LAJos), See also:COUNT (1806-1849)  , Hungarian statesman, was See also:born at See also:Pressburg in 18o6 . He supplied the defects of an indifferent See also:education while serving in See also:garrison in See also:Italy as a See also:lieutenant of hussars, and thenceforward adopted all the new ideas, economical and See also:political . According to See also:Szechenyi, he learnt much from a See also:German See also:tutor of the See also:radical school, but it was not till after his See also:marriage with the See also:noble-minded, and highly-gifted countess Antonia Zichy that he began working earnestly for the See also:national cause . When Szechenyi See also:drew nearer to the See also:court in 1839-1840, See also:Batthyany became the See also:leader of the opposition in the Upper See also:House, where his social See also:rank and resolute See also:character won for him See also:great See also:influence . Despite his " sardanapalian inclinations," he associated himself unreservedly with the extremists; and spent large sums for the development of See also:trade and See also:industry . In 1847 he fiercely opposed the See also:government, procured the See also:election of See also:Kossuth as the representative of Pest, took See also:part in the Great Deputation of the 15th of See also:March, and on the 31st of March 1848 became the first constitutional See also:prime-See also:minister of See also:Hungary . His position became extremely difficult when See also:Jellachich and the Croats took up arms . Convinced that the rigid See also:maintenance of the constitutionwas the See also:sole See also:panacea, he did his utmost, in his frequent journeys to See also:Innsbruck, to persuade the court to condemn Jellachich and establish a strong national government at Pest . Unfortunately, however, he was persuaded to consent to the despatch of Magyar troops to quell the See also:Italian rising, before the Croat difficulty had been adjusted, and thenceforth, despite his perfect See also:loyalty, and his admirable services as Honved minister in organizing the national forces, his authority in Hungary declined before the rising See also:star of Kossuth . When Jellachich invaded Hungary, Batthyany resigned with the intention of forming a new See also:ministry excluding Kossuth, but this had now become impossible . Then Batthyany attempted to mediate between the two extreme parties, and subsequently raised a See also:regiment from among his peasantry and led them against the Croats . On the filth of See also:October he was incapacitated for active service by a fall from his See also:horse which See also:broke his See also:arm On his recovery he returned to Pest, laboured hard to bring about See also:peace, and was a member of the deputation from the Hungarian See also:diet to See also:Prince See also:Windischgratz, whom the See also:Austrian See also:commander refused to receive .

A few days later (8th of See also:

January 1849) he was arrested at Pest . As a See also:magnate he was only indictable by the See also:grand See also:justiciary, as a minister he was responsible to the diet alone . At See also:Laibach, whither he was taken, he asked that Deals might be his See also:advocate, but this being refused he wrote his own See also:defence . See also:Sentence of See also:hanging was finally pronounced upon him at See also:Olmutz for violating the Pragmatic See also:Sanction, overthrowing the constitution, and aiding and abetting the See also:rebellion . To See also:escape this See also:fate he stabbed himself with a small concealed See also:dagger, and bled to See also:death in the See also:night of the 5th of October 1849 . See Bertalan Szemere, Batthyany, Kossuth, See also:Gorges (Ger.), (See also:Hamburg, 1853) . (R . N .

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