Miklós Wesselényi (1796-1850). Hungarian statesman. Seriously ill, took part in the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, playing an important role in persuading the Transylvanian Diet to proclaim union with Hungary, one of the important aims of the Revolution. Disappointed by the development and radicalisation of events, like many members of the reformist aristocracy, he left the country in September 1848 on the pretext of continuing his medical treatment in Gräfenberg. Portrait. Engraving by Ed. Coppin. "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the E

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Miklós Wesselényi (1796-1850). Hungarian statesman. Seriously ill, took part in the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, playing an important role in persuading the Transylvanian Diet to proclaim union with Hungary, one of the important aims of the Revolution. Disappointed by the development and radicalisation of events, like many members of the reformist aristocracy, he left the country in September 1848 on the pretext of continuing his medical treatment in Gräfenberg. Portrait. Engraving by Ed. Coppin. "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VIII. 1856.

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