Daniel Irányi, Halbschuh

* Toporc, February 24, 1822 – † Nyíregyháza, November 2, 1892 / politician, publicist, historian ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in Prešov, Késmárk and Rozsnyó, studied philosophy and law at the Prešov Evangelical Lyceum, where he was the president of the Hungarian Youth Association. In August 1842 he officially applied to be allowed to change his previous surname to Iráni. From 1844 he was a lawyer in Pest, a supporter of the reform movements. He played a significant role in the organization of the Pesti, later Ellenzéki Kör, and then the March 1848 Pest movements. In 1848, he was secretary to the Minister of Justice, one of the representatives of Pest, a member of the volunteer team against Jelačić, and later a government commissioner for Sáros County. In 1849, he was an opponent of the peace party in Debrecen, and then a government commissioner for Pest. In exile, he was a journalist in Paris, and in 1859 a clerk of the Hungarian National Administration. In 1866, Kossuth was an envoy of Bismarck. After the Compromise, in 1868, the city of Pécs elected him as a representative in absentia, and from 1869 he was the president of the 48th Party. He was the developer of the peaceful parliamentary reform tactics of 48, which Kossuth later attacked. After the formation of the Independence Party (1884), he was also its president, although his influence later decreased. He fought for civil marriage and the education of the illiterate. He dealt with the events of 1848/49 in several articles, and in his two-volume work written in French, he wrote the political history of the Hungarian Revolution. This was also published in Hungarian in 1989, translated by Margit Szoboszlai. ; ; His main works: ; Political History of the Hungarian Revolution 1847–1849 I–II. (with Charles-Louis Chassin), 1859–1860, ; Notes on the memoirs of Baron Zsigmond Kemény, 1883, ; Notes on the memoirs of József Madarász, 1884.