Dezső Szilágyi

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Dezső Szilágyi
Minister of Justice of Hungary
In office 9 April 1889 – 15 January 1895
Preceded by	Teofil Fabiny
Succeeded by	Sándor Erdély
Personal details
Born	(1840-04-01)1 April 1840 Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	30 July 1901(1901-07-30) (aged 61) Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Political party	Deák Party, Moderate Opposition, Liberal Party
Profession	politician, jurist

Dezső Szilágyi (1 April 1840 – 30 July 1901) was a

between 1889 and 1895.

Biography

Szilágyi was born at Nagyvárad (today: Oradea, Romania) in the Kingdom of Hungary. He studied law at Budapest, Vienna, and in Germany, and early attracted attention with his articles on law and politics. As head of a section in the Ministry of Justice of Hungary, he traveled on a commission from his government to England to study there the conditions of the administration of justice, of which he had a knowledge then equaled by few. Brought up wholly in Liberal ideas, Szilágyi took a conspicuous part in the codification work of the Ministry of Justice.

Deputy in 1871, professor of public law and politics at

(Pressburg) as an independent member.

He became

, and articles XXXII and XXXIII on the religion of the children and on state registration, were the result of his active cooperation.

After the appointment of Dezső Bánffy, the former president of the Hungarian House of Deputies, as prime minister, Szilágyi was elected president of the House on 21 January 1895, which office he retained until 1899.

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Eduard von Wertheimer (1922). "Szilagyi, Desider". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.

External links

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (in Hungarian)
• Works by or about Dezső Szilágyi at Internet Archive

Political offices
Preceded by Teofil Fabiny	Minister of Justice 1889–1895	Succeeded by Sándor Erdély
Preceded by Dezső Bánffy	Speaker of the House of Representatives 1895–1898	Succeeded by József Madarász