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Lajos Kossuth

1802 - 1894

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Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (Hungarian: [ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃut]; Hungarian: udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos; Slovak: Ľudovít Košút; English: Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–1849. With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of the Kingdom of Hungary. As the influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior." Kossuth's powerful English and American speeches so impressed and touched the famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he wrote a book about Kossuth's life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lajos Kossuth has received more than 807,875 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Lajos Kossuth is the 1,521st most popular politician (up from 1,583rd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 46th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Hungarian Politician.

Lajos Kossuth was a Hungarian journalist and politician who was most famous for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lajos Kossuth ranks 1,521 out of 19,576. Before him are Carlos Menem, Theuderic I, José Eduardo dos Santos, Ferenc Szálasi, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and Yu the Great. After him are Mago Barca, Isma'il Pasha, Lothair of France, John III Doukas Vatatzes, Jingtai Emperor, and Yuan Shao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Lajos Kossuth ranks 5. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, and Archduke Franz Karl of Austria. After him are Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1894, Lajos Kossuth ranks 7. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Heinrich Hertz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Adolphe Sax. After him are Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Anton Rubinstein, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and Hans von Bülow.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Lajos Kossuth ranks 49 out of 1,077. Before him are Zoltán Kodály (1882), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), László Kubala (1927), Imre Lakatos (1922), and Flórián Albert (1941). After him are Béla III of Hungary (1148), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Emeric Thököly (1657), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), and Emeric, King of Hungary (1174).

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Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Lajos Kossuth ranks 18. Before him are Viktor Orbán (1963), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), and Coloman, King of Hungary (1070). After him are Béla III of Hungary (1148), Emeric Thököly (1657), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), and Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262).

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