Alois of Pražák

Alois Pražák (from Patočka)

Alois Freiherr von Pražák (born February 21, 1820 in Hungarian-Hradisch in Moravia , † January 30, 1901 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician.

Life

Pražák studied law in Olomouc , was elected to the Moravian Landtag and the Reichstag by his hometown in 1848, and there belonged to the party of the Slavic right. In 1849 he settled as a lawyer in Brno and only re-entered political life after the February patent in 1861, when he was elected to the Moravian Landtag and (until 1863) to the Imperial Council; in the first he was the leader of the Czech party. Since 1874 a member of the Reichsrat again, he became head of the moderate Czechs. On August 15, 1879, he was appointed Minister without Portfolio ("Czech Compatriot Minister") in the Taaffe Ministry and on January 14, 1881, he also took over the Ministry of Justice. Through his language ordinances (1881 and 1886), he promoted the introduction of Czech as a court language and in the land registers. On October 11, 1888, he was replaced as Minister of Justice by Count Schönborn , but remained in the cabinet as a minister without a portfolio until August 4, 1892. He was then appointed a lifelong member of the manor .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Pražák, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 229–231 ( digitized version ).
• Prazák, Aloys, Freiherr von . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon , fourth edition, 1885-1892, volume 13, p. 321
• Baron Pražák †. In:  Prager Tagblatt , vol. 25, no. 31, morning edition, January 31, 1901, pp. 10–11 (online at ANNO ).
• † Baron Prazak. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, January 31, 1901, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
• J. Cvetler:  Pražák, Alois Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 249.

Web links

Commons : Alois von Pražák  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature and other media by and about Alois von Pražák in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Members of the Council of Ministers of the Austrian Empire 1867-1918 on Governments (Historical) (accessed on October 16, 2010)