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DESSEWFFY, AUREL, COUNT (18o8 - 1842)

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DESSEWFFY, AUREL, See also:COUNT (18o8 - 1842) , Hungarian journalist and politician, eldest son of Count Jbzsef Dessewffy and Eleonora Sztaray, was See also:born at Nagy-Mihaly, See also:county Zemplen, See also:Hungary. Carefully educated at his See also:father's See also:house, he was accustomed to the best society of his See also:day. While still a See also:child he could declaim most of the Iliad in See also:Greek without a See also:book, and read and quoted See also:Tacitus with See also:enthusiasm. Under the See also:noble See also:influence of Ferencz See also:Kazinczy he became acquainted with the See also:chief masterpieces of See also:European literature in their See also:original See also:tongues. He was particularly fond of the See also:English, and one of his See also:early idols was See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham. He regularly accompanied his father to the diets of which he was a member, followed the course of the debates, of which he kept a See also:journal, and made the acquaintance of the See also:great See also:Szechenyi, who encouraged his aspirations. On leaving See also:college, he entered the royal aulic chancellery, and in 1832 was appointed secretary of the royal See also:stadtholder at Buda. The same See also:year he turned his See also:attention to politics and was regarded as one of the most promising See also:young orators of the day, especially during the sessions of the See also:diet of 1832-1836, when he had the courage to oppose See also:Kossuth. At the See also:Pressburg diet in 184o Dessewffy was already the leading orator of the more enlightened and progressive Conservatives, but incurred great unpopularity for not going far enough, with the result that he was twice defeated at the polls. But his reputation in See also:court circles was increasing; he was appointed a member of the See also:committee for the reform of the criminal See also:law in 1840; and, the same year with a See also:letter of recommendation from Metternich in his See also:pocket, visited See also:England and See also:France, See also:Holland and See also:Belgium, made the acquaintance of See also:Thiers and See also:Heine in See also:Paris, and returned See also:home with an immense and See also:precious See also:store of See also:practical See also:information. He at once proceeded to put fresh See also:life into the despondent and irresolute Conservative party, and the Magyar See also:aristocracy, by gallantly combating in the Vildg the opinions of Kossuth's See also:paper, the Pesti Hirlap. But the multiplicity of his labours was too much for his feeble physique, and he died on the 9th of See also:February 1842, at the very See also:time when his talents seemed most indispensable.

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des Grafen Aurel Dessewffy (Pest, 1843) ; Memorial See also:Wreath to Count Aurel Dessewffy (Hung.), (See also:Budapest, 1857) ; Collected See also:Works of Count Dessewffy, with a See also:Biography (Hung.), (Budapest, 1887). (R. N.

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