Lajos Kossuth

Lajos Kossuth

Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (English: Louis Kossuth; September 19, 1802 – March 20, 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe.

Sourced

• History is the revelation of providence.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 278.

External links

• 1849 newspaper article
• Lajos Kossuth in Scotland
• Lajos Kossuth in North America
• The Hungary Page, featuring Nobel Prize Winners and Famous Hungarians
• Part of his speech on a wax phonograph cylinder (1890)
• Early articles of "The Times" about Lajos Kussuth
• Early New York Times articles about Kossuth