John Benczur

* Losonc, May 29, 1817 – † Rimabrézó, July 12, 1852 / lawyer, legal writer ; ; His father was a Lutheran pastor and moved with his family to Nyíregyháza in 1827, where his son started high school and finished it in Prešov. He studied law in Pest and took the bar oath in 1842. In the 1840s, he was an internal employee of the newspaper Jelenkor. In 1848, he was the sub-notary of the city of Nyíregyháza. He went into hiding after the War of Independence. In his conservative works, he tried to introduce certain corrections in relation to certain institutions of the feudal system (religious commission) and the entire county administration, and with their help to protect the institutions of the order (the system of orders of the retinue, etc.). He translated works of fiction into Hungarian and regularly wrote socio-political articles in contemporary newspapers. ; ; His main works: ; Constitutionalism or Opinion on County and City Questions, 1843, ; On the Expedient Transformation of the Hungarian Creeds, 1847, ; Lawyer Relations, 1847, ; Theories of Freedom and Social Order, 1848.