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Lajos, count Batthyány

Hungarian statesman
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Born:
Feb. 14, 1806, Pozsony, Hung., Austrian Empire [now in Bratislava, Slovakia]
Died:
Oct. 6, 1849, Pest [now in Budapest], Hung. (aged 43)

Lajos, count Batthyány (born Feb. 14, 1806, Pozsony, Hung., Austrian Empire [now in Bratislava, Slovakia]—died Oct. 6, 1849, Pest [now in Budapest], Hung.) was a statesman who during the revolution of 1848 was premier of the first Hungarian parliamentary government and a martyr for Magyar independence. The son of wealthy liberal landowners whose nobility dated to 1398, Batthyány entered the military but left it in 1827 to manage his estates and to take a law degree at the University of Zagreb. Travel in western Europe acquainted him with advanced liberal ideas and capitalist business practices, which he applied successfully to ...(100 of 299 words)

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