Ferenc Pulszky
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Born | Ferenc Aurél Emánuel Pulszky de Cselfalva et Lubócz 17 September 1814 |
Died | 9 September 1897 | (aged 82)
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Spouse | Theresa Pulszky |
Ferenc Aurél Emánuel Pulszky de Cselfalva et Lubócz (Hungarian: cselfalvi és lubóczi Pulszky Ferenc Aurél Emánuel; 17 September 1814 – 9 September 1897) was a Hungarian politician, writer and nobleman. After fleeing Hungary in 1849 and being condemned to death in his absence, he was able to return and resume his political career in 1866 under an imperial amnesty.
Biography
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He was born at Eperjes, now
Elected to the
Pulszky was condemned to death in contumaciam (in contempt of court, Pulszky having not attended) by a council of war in his home country in 1852. In 1860 he went to Italy, took part in Giuseppe Garibaldi's ill-fated expedition to Rome (1862), and was interned as a prisoner of war in Naples.[1] Pulszky's salon in a villa in S. Margherita a Montici, Florence, was the liveliest in town. He financed the newspaper "Il Progresso." His son, Giulio Francesco Pulszky died on 19 November 1863, aged 14, and is buried at English Cemetery, Florence. His surviving children were Augustus, Charles, Polixena, and Garibaldi.[2]
Amnestied by the emperor of Austria in 1866, Pulszky returned home and re-entered public life. He was in 1867–1876 and again in 1884 a member of the newly reformed Diet or National Assembly, where he joined the party named after Ferenc Deák.[1] He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.[3]
In addition to his political activity, Pulszky was president of the literary section of the Hungarian Academy and director of the National Museum in Budapest, where he became distinguished for his archaeological researches. He employed his influence to promote both art and science and liberal views in his native country. He died in Budapest on 9 September 1897.[1]
Masonic career
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Pulszky was initiated in 1863 into Lodge Dante Alighieri in Turin and was soon raised to the 33rd grade of the Scottish Rite. After his return to Hungary he contributed to reestablishing Hungarian freemasonry, first as Master of the Lodge "Einigkeit in Vaterland/Egység a hazában" (Unity in the Homeland), then as first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of St. John. After the establishment of the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Hungary (combining the Grand Lodge of St John and the Grand Orient at 1886) he became its first Grand Master. In 1875, he supported Countess Helene Hadik Barkóczy's initiation into a Masonic lodge.
Works
- Die Jacobiner in Ungarn (The Jacobins in Hungary) (Leipzig, 1851)
- Életem és korom (My Life and Times) (Pest, 1880)
- Aus dem Tagebuch eines in Grossbritannien reisenden Ungarns (From the Diary of a Hungarian Travelling in Britain) (Pesth, 1837)
- White, Red, Black, with his wife Theresa Pulszky (2 vols., London, 1853)
- Many treatises on Hungarian questions in the publications of the Hungarian Academy.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ English Cemetery Guidebook, accessed 15 April 2017
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- János György Szilágyi, "A Forty-Eighter's Vita Contemplativa: Ferenc Pulszky (1814-1889)", The Hungarian Quarterly, 39:149 (Spring 1998) [1]
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pulszky, Ferencz Aurel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 644. This work in turn cites:
- F. W. Newman, Reminiscences of Kossuth and Pulszky, 1888
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the - Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- "Ferenc Pulszky". Hungarian Masonic Wiki. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- Vári László (2012). "Hadik-Barkóczy Ilona és a szabadkőművesek (Helene Hadik-Barkóczy and the Freemasons)". Aetas (in Hungarian). 27 (3): 49–62.
- Vári, László (2015). "The Curious Case of Helene Hadik-Barkóczy with the Freemasons". www.academia.edu. www.academia.edu. Retrieved January 19, 2019.