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FERENCZ AUREL See also:PULSZKY (1814—1897 )
, Hungarian politician and author, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:September 1814 at See also:Eperjes
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After studying See also:law and See also:philosophy at the high See also:schools of his native See also:town and See also:Miskolcz, he travelled abroad
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See also:England particularly attracted him, and his fascinating See also:book, Aus dem Tagebach eines in Grossbritannien reisenden Ungarns (Pesth, 1837), gained for him the membership of the Hungarian See also:Academy
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Elected to the Reichstag of 1840, he was in 1848 appointed to a See also:financial See also:post in the Hungarian See also:government, and was transferred in like capacity to See also:Vienna under Esterhazy
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Suspected of intriguing with the revolutionists, See also:Pulszky fled to See also:Budapest to avoid See also:arrest
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Here he became an active member of the See also:committee of See also:national See also:defence, and when obliged to See also:fly the See also:country he joined See also:Kossuth in England and with him made a tour in the See also:United States of See also:America
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In collaboration with his wife he wrote a narrative of this voyage, entitled See also: He died on the 9th of September 1897 . Among his writings are See also:Die Jacobiner in Ungarn (See also:Leipzig, 1851) and Eletem es Korom (Pest, r88o), and many See also:treatises on Hungarian questions in the publications of the Academy of Pest . Some Reminiscences of Kossuth and Pulszky were published by F . W . See also:Newman in 1888 . |
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