János Libényi
János Libényi (baptized December 8, 1831 in Csákvár ; † February 26, 1853 in Favoriten near Vienna ) was a Hungarian tailor who committed an assassination attempt on the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1853 .
Life
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849 he worked as a military tailor for the rebels. From 1851 he lived in Vienna.
During a walk by Emperor Franz Joseph on the Carinthian Bastion on February 18, 1853, Libényi tried to stab him in the neck with a knife, but it slipped off the collar of his dragoon uniform and only slightly injured the emperor. Before Libenyi could stab a second time, he was overwhelmed by the imperial adjutant Maximilian O'Donell and the rushing butcher Josef Ettenreich .
During the trial, Libényi confessed to being a lone perpetrator and gave hatred of the emperor as a motive because of the bloody suppression of the revolution in Hungary in 1848/1849. He was sentenced to death by hanging. On February 26, 1853, he was executed on the cross by the spinner .
The Simmeringer Haide is often wrongly stated as the place of execution. The reason for this is a mocking song that begins with the line Auf der Simmeringer Had ', hat's an Schneider betrayed . However, this song originally comes from the Nestroy piece Thirty Years from the Life of a Rag and was only repositioned in a few places by the Viennese, as János Libényi was also a tailor.
literature
- Benda: Libényi, János. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 181.
Web links
- János Libényi in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Libényi, János |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Libenyi, Janos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian assassin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized December 8, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Csákvár |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1853 |
| Place of death | Favorites , Vienna |