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* Vágújhely, September 25, 1825 – † Budapest, November 2, 1875 / economist, statistician, politician ; ; Prepared to be a rabbi. After his theological studies in Nitra, Bratislava and Prague, he studied at the Faculty of Humanities in Pest. His first publicistic works were published in Bratislava in the Orient, the Allgemeine Zeitung Judentums, and the Pressburger Zeitung. In Pest, he founded the Jewish Interpretation Society. In 1848, he edited the weekly Der ungarische Israelit, and then was a Jewish camp chaplain in the War of Independence. He emigrated after Vílagos. He worked as an economic writer in Leipzig, Brussels and Paris, in 1860 he was a member of Garibaldi's Legion, and then second secretary of the Suez Canal Commission. In 1869, he returned home, became the editor of Neuer Freier Lloyd and a colleague of Hon. In 1870, he joined Kálmán Tisza's group and became a member of parliament, and from 1875 he was the Secretary of State for Commerce. He participated in the formation of the Pest-Buda Workers' Training Association and attempted to bring it under civilian leadership. He carried out a wide range of journalistic activities, especially in emigration. ; ; His main works: ; Zur Judenfrage in Ungarn, 1847, ; A reformált žídóság élvei, 1848, ; Népfelség, 1849, ; Ludwig Kossuth I-III., 1851, ; Statistisches Gemälde des Königreichs Belgien, 1854, ; Franz Rákóczy I-II., 1854, ; La Hongrie et l'Autriche de 1848-59, 1859, ; Hungary in Face of Austria, 1860; Hungary and the European Crisis, 1860; The Freedom of the Banks, 1866; Banking Freedom with Special Reference to the Hungarian Banking Movement, 1870; On the Arrangement of Our State Finances, 1874.