Mihály Horváth

Mihály Horváth ( born October 20, 1809 in Szentes; † August 19, 1878 in Karlsbad) was a Hungarian historian and theologian.

Mihály Horváth attended high school in Szeged, studied it in a spiritual seminar on Waitzen theology and worked as a chaplain at several places, but took, because of his liberal mindset with his superiors disintegrate, 1841 educators place in the house of Count Erdoedy to Vienna. In 1844, he was there for a professor of Hungarian language and literature at Theresianumgasse, 1847 appointed provost to Hatvan, 1848 but the Minister of Education Eötvös Bishop of Csanád and member of the board magnate.

The lively activity which he unfolded in these positions, gave him great popularity, so that he received the portfolio of Culture and Public Education from April 14, 1849 after the Declaration of Independence.

After the defeat of the revolution he fled to Paris, went thence to Brussels, then to Zurich, where he was for a time tutor in the house of the Countess Karolyi, while he was sentenced in September 1851 by court-martial in contumaciam death.

In 1867 he was amnestied and received by the Hungarian government a doped Abbey, again participated in political life and was elected after the death of Ferenc Deak 1876 in the district in the capital of Deputies. He died on August 19, 1878 in Karlovy Vary.

As titular president and the historical- philosophical class of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Historical Society Horváth was one of the greatest Hungarian historian and wrote the most complete history of Hungary.

Works

His most important works besides many smaller and larger historical treatises are:

• History of Hungary until 1823. 3rd edition, Pest 1873, 8 volumes
• Twenty-five years of the history of Hungary, 1823-48. 2nd edition, pestilence; German, Leipzig, 1867, 2 volumes
• History of the War of Independence in Hungary in 1848 and 1849. 2nd edition, Pest 1872, 3 volumes