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BARON ZSIGMOND KEMENY (1816-r875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON ZSIGMOND See also:KEMENY (1816-r875)  , Hungarian author, came of a See also:noble but reduced See also:family . In 1837 he,studied See also:jurisprudence at Marosvasarhely, but soon devoted himself entirely to journalism and literature . His first unfinished See also:work, On the Causes of the Disaster of See also:Mohacs (184o), attracted much See also:attention . In the same See also:year he studied natural See also:history and See also:anatomy at See also:Vienna University . In 1841, along with Lajos Kovacs, he edited the Transylvanian newspaper See also:Erdelyi Hirad6 . He also took an active See also:part in provincial politics and warmly supported the principles of See also:Count See also:Stephen See also:Szechenyi . In 1846 he moved to Pest, where his pamphlet, Korteskedes es ellenszerei (Partisanship and its Antidote), had already made him famous . Here he consorted with the most eminent of the moderate reformers, and for a See also:time was on the See also:staff of the Pesti Hirlap . The same year he brought out his first See also:great novel, See also:Pal Gyulay . He was elected a member of the revolutionary See also:diet of 1848 and accompanied it through all its vicissitudes . After a brief See also:exile he accepted the See also:amnesty and returned to See also:Hungary . Careless of his unpopularity, he took up his See also:pen to defend the cause of See also:justice and moderation, and in his two See also:pamphlets, Forradalom utein (After the Revolution) and Meg egysz 6 a forradalom utdn (One word more after the Revolution), he defended the point of view which was realized by See also:Deak in 1867 .

He subsequently edited the Pesti Naplo, which became virtually Deak's See also:

political See also:organ . See also:Kemeny also published several political essays (e.g . The Two Wesselenyis, and Stephen Szechenyi) which are among the best of their See also:kind in any literature . His novels published during these years, such as Ferj es no (See also:Husband and Wife), Szivorvenyei (The See also:Heart's Secrets), &c., also won for him a foremost See also:rank among See also:con-temporary novelists . During the 'sixties Kemeny took an active part in the political labours of Deak, whose right See also:hand he continued to be, and popularized the See also:Composition of 1867 which he had done so much to bring about . He was elected to the diet of 1867 for one of the divisions of Pest, but took no part in the debates . The last years of his See also:life were passed in See also:complete seclusion in Transylvania . To the See also:works of Kemeny already mentioned should be added the See also:fine See also:historical novel Rajongok (The Fanatics) (Pest, 1858-1859), and Collected Speeches (Hung.) (Pest, 1889) . See L . Nogrady, See also:Baron See also:Sigismund Kemeny's Life and Writings (Hung.) (See also:Budapest, 1902) ; G . Beksics, Sigismund Kemeny, the Revolution and the Composition (Hung.) (Budapest, 1888) . (R .

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