György Kmety
György Kmety (born May 24, 1813 in Felsőpokorágy, today a district of Rimavská Sobota in Slovakia, then Gemer and Kleinhont county ; † April 25, 1865 in London ) was an officer who worked as a Hungarian freedom fighter and after the failure of the March Revolution in 1848 / 49 fought in the service of the Ottoman Empire .
Life
Kmety attended the college in Eperies and the Evangelical Lyceum in Wroclaw to prepare for theological studies, but entered the military and became kapitány at the outbreak of the Hungarian revolution .
He joined the same, soon advanced to ezredes and took part as division commander of the Upper Danube Army under Artúr Görgei in his campaign in January and February 1849. At the end of February 1849 he fought with the 7th Corps in the battle of Kápolna and on June 13th smashed an Austrian brigade under Major General Franz Salomon Wyss near Csorna . At the end of June, cut off from the upper Danube Army off Komorn , he united with Moritz Perczel's southern army , together they defeated Banus Jelačić's troops in the battle near Hegyes in early July . After the decisive defeat of the Hungarians at Timișoara on August 9th, he escaped on Turkish soil and, after converting to Islam , became a Turkish general under the name of Ismail Pasha.
In the Crimean War with the defense of the fortress Kars entrusted, he beat the storm of the Russian general in the summer of 1855 Nikolai Nikolayevich Muravyov from the same victorious. Only when the famine in the fortress had reached its highest level did he hand over command to the English Colonel Fenwick Williams and withdraw to Erzurum .
He made his merits against the English Blue Book in a defensive pamphlet entitled: A narrative of the defense of Kars on the 29th of Sept. 1855, translated from the German of George Kmety. "(Lond. 1856), which was followed by an open letter to General Williams (Aug. 1, 1855). He later became Governor General of Kastamonu in Asia Minor.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kmety, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 131–133 ( digitized version ).
- Kmety György. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 427 f. (Direct links on p. 427 , p. 428 ).
Web links
- György Kmety , in: A Pallas nagy lexikona (Hungarian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kmety, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Felsőpokorágy, now part of Rimavská Sobota |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1865 |
| Place of death | London |