Albert Gyulay
Albert Gyulay Count of Maros-Németh and Nádaska (born September 12, 1766 in Ofen , † April 27, 1835 in Pest ) was an Imperial and Royal Officer and Lieutenant Field Marshal .
Albert Gyulay, brother of Count Ignácz Gyulay and son of Sámuel Gyulay , took part in the Turkish war of 1788/89 in Transylvania as a cavalry master of a Szekler hussar regiment and then took part in the regiment of his father Sámuel Gyulay in the main army under Laudon's command to storm Belgrade participated with honors on September 30, 1789.
In the campaign of 1793, it was he who, a few days after the Battle of Neer winds, made the suggestion to alarm the heights of Tirlemont at night (here March 16, 1793, victory of the French under Dumouriez over the Austrians). A brilliant success crowned the well-designed plan, and Gyulay thereupon became a major in O'Donnell's Free Corps .
In 1799 he fought as a colonel in a newly established Hungarian infantry regiment in the Army of Italy. In 1800 he commanded an army corps on the other side of the Tisza as major general during the Hungarian insurrection . From 1803 he was alternately brigadier in Bohemia, Hungary and in the military border region, but during the campaign of 1805 he was active in the Hungarian insurrection and on August 14, 1808 he was appointed field marshal lieutenant.
In the campaign of 1809 he commanded the 8th Army Corps in Italy, led the left wing in the battle of Fontana Fredda (April 16), led the retreat from Italy through the Fellatal, then fought victoriously in the valley of Wolfsbach near Tarvisio, penetrated the Savetal in Hungary and united on June 2 at St. Gotthardt with the Archduke Johann . In 1813 and 1815 he commanded a reserve corps and then retired to Pest, where he died on April 27, 1835.
family
He married the Countess Julia Wynants († 1824) in 1794 . The couple had several children:
- Sámuel Béla Crescencius (April 19, 1803 - August 20, 1886)
- ⚭ 1838 Hermina Johanna Katalin Hoffmeiter (born October 30, 1818; † March 24, 1878)
- ⚭ 1882 Maria Elisabetta Cechetti (* September 23, 1834 - November 25, 1889)
- Albert (* 1805)
- Lajos († 1845)
- Anna Jozefa ⚭ Count László Haller de Hallerkeö († 1837)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Gyulay von Maros-Németh and Nadaska, Albert Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, pp. 67–69 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyulay, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gyulay Count of Maros-Németh and Nádaska, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian kuk officer and field marshal lieutenant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | oven |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1835 |
| Place of death | pest |