Lajos, count Batthyány

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...