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See also:BATTHYANY, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS (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, 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 (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
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.
End of Article: BATTHYANY, LOUIS (LAJos), COUNT (1806-1849)
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