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PULSZKY, FERENCZ AUREL (1814—1897 )

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PULSZKY, FERENCZ AUREL (1814—1897 ) , Hungarian politician and author, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:September 1814 at See also:Eperjes. 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. 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. 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. Suspected of intriguing with the revolutionists, Pulszky fled to See also:Budapest to avoid See also:arrest. 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. In collaboration with his wife he wrote a narrative of this voyage, entitled See also:White, Red, See also:Black (3 vols., See also:London, 1853). He was condemned to See also:death (1852) in contumaciam by a See also:council of See also:war. In 186o he went to See also:Italy, took See also:part in See also:Garibaldi's expedition to See also:Aspromonte (1862), and was interned as a prisoner of war in See also:Naples. Amnestied by the See also:emperor of See also:Austria in 1866, he returned See also:home and re-entered public See also:life; was from 1867—1876, and again in 1884, a member of the Hungarian See also:Diet, joining the See also:Deak party. In addition to his See also:political activity, he was See also:president of the See also:literary See also:section of the Hungarian Academy, and director of the National Museum at Budapest, where he became distinguished for his archaeological researches. He employed his See also:great See also:influence to promote both See also:art and See also:science and Liberal views in his native country.

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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