Bela Grunwald

* Szentantal, December 2, 1839 – † Courbevoie/Franciao., May 4, 1891 / politician, publicist, historian, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1888) ; ; His father was a farm officer of the Coburg princely family. He completed secondary school in Selmecbánya and Bánya Besztercebánya, and his law studies at the University of Budapest. During his study trip to Western Europe (1864–1865), he also attended university lectures in Berlin and Heidelberg. After his return home, he took on a public role, and after the Compromise, he was the chief notary of Zólyom County, then its deputy from 1871, and from 1876 he was a member of the parliament of Bánya Besztercebánya. He was an advocate of the nationalization of public administration, civic centralization, and at the same time the forced Magyarization of nationalities, and he especially urged more decisive action against the Slovak national movement. He ordered the closure of Matica slovenská and the three Slovak gymnasiums, because, according to him, they were conducting pan-Slavic propaganda there. His political views were increasingly marginalized and he therefore began to deal with history. However, his work on Széchenyi was met with much criticism, so he traveled to France, where his health deteriorated and he eventually ended his life by suicide on the banks of the Seine. According to Balázs Ablonczy, “his personality and actions show many similarities to the fate of the lost generation of the time, Lajos Tolnai, Jenő Komjáthy, Jenő Péterfi, ; Gyula Reviczky”. ; ; His main works: ; Our Public Administration and the Hungarian Nationality, 1874, ; A Felvidék, 1878, ; A közőrőháztásítás közőz Kossuth and the county. Reply to Lajos Kossuth, 1885, ; The old Hungary 1711–1825., 1888, ; The new Hungary, Gr. István Széchenyi, 1890, ; Zólyom county, 1891.