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Lajos Kossuth
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Hungarian politician (1802–1894)
Lajos Kossuth was a Hungarian politician who lived from 1802 to 1894 and played a significant role in 19th-century European history. He is remembered as a major figure in Hungarian nationalism and resistance against Habsburg rule during the mid-1800s.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lajos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- statelessness
- Place of birth
- Monok
- Place of death
- Turin
- Sibling
- Zsuzsanna Kossuth
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- Regent of Hungary
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Image
- Portrait of Lajos Kossuth, 1852.jpg
- Work location
- Budapest
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- Commons Creator page
- Lajos Kossuth
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Kossuth Lajos
- Commons category
- Lajos Kossuth
- date of birth
- 1806-04-27
- date of death
- 1894-03-20
- place of burial
- Fiume Road Graveyard
- Commons gallery
- Lajos Kossuth
- cause of death
- influenza
- P12749
- Winifred Wagner
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Encyclopedic overview
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva ( Hungarian: [ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃut]; Hungarian: udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos; Slovak: Ľudovít Košút; English: Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence of 1848–1849.
Kossuth, known for his public speaking skills, rose from a lesser noble (gentry) background to become regent-president during the 1848–1849 Hungarian revolution. As the influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior."
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