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Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth, lithograph, 1849.
During his two-year confinement in Kütahya, Anatolia, the Hungarian political leader Lajos Kossuth taught himself English by studying the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare.1
This self-directed study allowed him to address mass meetings in English during his subsequent travels to England and the United States, where he sought international support for Hungary’s cause.1