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KEMENY, ZSIGMOND, BARON (1816-r875)

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KEMENY, ZSIGMOND, See also:BARON (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. 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, 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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