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FERENCZ AUREL PULSZKY (1814—1897 )

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERENCZ AUREL

PULSZKY (1814—1897 )  , Hungarian politician and author, was born on the 17th of September 1814 at
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Eperjes . After studying law and philosophy at the high
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schools of his native
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town and
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Miskolcz, he travelled abroad . England particularly attracted him, and his fascinating
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book, Aus dem Tagebach eines in Grossbritannien reisenden Ungarns (Pesth, 1837), gained for him the membership of the Hungarian Academy . Elected to the Reichstag of 1840, he was in 1848 appointed to a
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financial
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post in the Hungarian government, and was transferred in like capacity to Vienna under Esterhazy . Suspected of intriguing with the revolutionists, Pulszky fled to
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Budapest to avoid arrest . Here he became an active member of the committee of
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national defence, and when obliged to fly the country he joined Kossuth in England and with him made a tour in the
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United States of
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America . In collaboration with his wife he wrote a narrative of this voyage, entitled White, Red, Black (3 vols.,
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London, 1853) . He was condemned to
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death (1852) in contumaciam by a council of war . In 186o he went to Italy, took
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part in Garibaldi's expedition to
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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
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life; was from 1867—1876, and again in 1884, a member of the Hungarian
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Diet, joining the Deak party . In addition to his
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political activity, he was president of the
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literary section of the Hungarian Academy, and director of the National Museum at Budapest, where he became distinguished for his archaeological researches . He employed his
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great influence to promote both
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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 (
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Leipzig, 1851) and Eletem es Korom (Pest, r88o), and many
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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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