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3 unusual facts about Kossuth


Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg

But before his arrival in Pest, Kossuth had incited the legislature to forbid his taking office as palatine of Hungary, and the army was instructed not to obey him.

House of Erdődy

Sándór Lajos Erdödy (b. 1802, d. 1881)joined the Batthyany and Kossuth cabinet but withdrew due to their extremist views.

Mark Perrin Lowrey

Beginning in 1853 he became a Southern Baptist preacher, serving primarily around the village of Kossuth, Mississippi.


Ede Kallós

His memorials include Ferenc Erkel Memorial in Gyula, Lajos Kossuth Memorial in Makó and Hódmezővásárhely, György Bessenyei Memorial in Nyíregyháza, Dániel Irányi Memorial, Mihály Vörösmarty Memorial in Nyíregyháza (together with Ede Telcs in 1908) and Ferenc Kölcsey Memorial (1939) in Budapest.

Glasgow City Halls

It was the first hall suitable for large gatherings and concerts to be built in the City and played host to the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth and William Ewart Gladstone.

György Petri

By receiving Kossuth prize in 1996 along with Péter Esterházy, he once again became subject to political criticism for alleged disrespect to Christianity.

Gyula Justh

Unlike Ferenc Kossuth he proved to be understanding in the case of Croatian representatives' obstruction who convicted the Hungarian service language among the Croatian Railways.

Kossuth Bridge

The Kossuth Bridge or Kossuth híd was a bridge that stood over the river Danube in Budapest from 1946 January 15th to 1960.

Kossuth Memorial

Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl made a new bronze statue of Kossuth pointing towards a brighter future with a raised hand.

The group depicted the members of the first Hungarian parliamentary government: Lajos Kossuth (in the middle), Pál Eszterházy, Gábor Klauzál, József Eötvös, István Széchenyi, Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány, Bertalan Szemere, Ferenc Deák and Lázár Mészáros.

Soma Visontai

As a mark of gratitude, the people of Neusatz, being Serbian sympathizers, elected Visontai in 1892 to the Hungarian Parliament as a supporter of Kossuth; and since 1899 he represented his native town, Gyöngyös, in Parliament.

St. Timothy's School

Afterward the girls gathered for tea and Kossuth cake, a chocolate-covered spongelike delicacy named after Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian general who visited Baltimore in the late 1800s, after a life of freedom-fighting that led to his country's independence in 1849.

Vincenzo de Domini

A Venetian patriot, close to the circles of Kossuth, he will be entrusted together with Gaspare Matcovich and Spiridione Gopcevich (1815 - 1861) with the project to turn the brick Implacable into a Hungarian man of war.


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