Menyhért Lónyay

Menyhért Count Lónyay de Nagylónya et Vásárosnamény (born January 6, 1822 in Lónya , Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County ; † November 3, 1884 Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician and 1871/72 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary .

Menyhért Lónyai

Life

Menyhért Lonyay, lithograph by Franz Eybl , 1848

Menyhért was the son of János Lónyay (1796-1859) member of a Protestant noble family. He studied law in Pest and in 1843 became a member of the state parliament for the opposition under Ferenc Deák . In 1845 he married Emilia Kappel (1825–1888), with whom he had four children. During the revolution of 1848/49 he was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance. Therefore he had to leave the country after the defeat of Hungary in 1849 and was able to return from Paris after an amnesty at the end of 1850 . At first he was active in banking and insurance, founded the first Hungarian insurance company in 1858 and a credit institution in 1866.

After balancing with Austria in 1867 , Lónyay became finance minister in the Gyula Andrássy government . Politically shaped by reform liberalism, he modernized the country's finances and pursued strict austerity measures in the state finances. On May 21, 1870 he was appointed joint kuk finance minister, when he won the trust of Emperor Franz Joseph . In August 1871 he was raised to the rank of count and on November 14, 1871 Hungarian Prime Minister.

When Lónyay was charged with corruption in the Reichstag in November 1872 , he resigned on December 2nd. In 1875 he became a member of the Magnate House and remained a member of the Reichstag and President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until 1882 .

Fonts

• From public affairs. 2 volumes, Budapest 1846.
• From state assets. 2 volumes, Budapest 1869.
• About our public affairs. The bank question. Tettey, Budapest 1875
• Count Stefan Széchenyi and the writings he left behind. Ráth Publishing House, Budapest 1875.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lonyay, Meinhard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 26–28 ( digitized version ).
• Benda:  Lónyay of Nagylónya and Count Vásárosnamény Menyhért. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 307 f. (Direct links on p. 307 , p. 308 ).
• Zoltán Szász: Lónyay von Nagylónya and Vásárosnamény, Menyhért Count . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 3. Munich 1979, p. 45 f.

Web links

Commons : Menyhért Lónyay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Detailed article about Lónyay (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Lónyay . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 910–911.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Benda:  Lónyay von Nagylónya and Count Vásárosnamény Menyhért. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 307 f. (Direct links on p. 307 , p. 308 ).
3. ^ Géza Andreas von Geyr: Sándor Wekerle. 1848-1921. The political biography of a Hungarian statesman of the Danube Monarchy. (= Southeast European Works , 91). Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-56037-9 , p. 57.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust	kuk finance minister May 21, 1870-14. Nov 1871	Gyula Andrássy