Leopold Hasner, Ritter von Artha

Leopold Hasner, Ritter von Artha (born March 15, 1818, Prague—died June 5, 1891, Bad Ischl, Austria) was an economist, jurist, and politician who served as a liberal Austrian minister of education (1867–70) and briefly as prime minister (1870). Educated in philosophy and law at Prague and Vienna, Hasner in 1848 became editor of an official newspaper in Prague—the Prager Zeitung. His liberal opinions, which favoured a centralized administration of the empire, won him the attention...