Salai, Laszlo

Laszlo Salai is the son of Peter Salai, secretary of the imperial governor in Hungary, a major bibliophile. Until 1833 he studied at the humanities and law faculties of the University of Pest . Thanks to his essay on punishments (“Das Strafverfahren mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Strafgerichte”), he was elected secretary to work out a new criminal code. Since 1836 - Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences.

In 1843 he became a member of the Hungarian parliament, where he joined the liberal opposition.

In 1844-1845, Salai was the editor-in-chief of the Pesti Leaf ( Pesti Hírlap ). With his predecessor in this post, Layosh Kossuth , he always had a strained relationship. Salai is the author of a series of newspaper articles in which he advocated the administrative centralization of Hungary and a reform aimed at narrowing Comitate self-government (brought together under the title "Publicistai dolgozatok" (Pest, 1847).

Member of the Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849 . In 1848, László Salai, together with Dénessel Pézmándy (Pázmándy Dénessel), represented Hungary in the German national parliament in Frankfurt. At the end of August of the same year, the German imperial government officially accepted him as an envoy of the independent Hungarian government. Later Salai was sent to the representative of the Hungarian government in Paris and London, where, however, he was not recognized.

After the suppression of the revolution, he was forced to seek refuge in Zurich ( Switzerland ), where he decided to devote himself to the historical sciences.

Posted program work "History of Hungary until 1706," published in Pest in 1850-1860. (German translation 1866-1875). In 1868 (4 years after Salai’s death), the Russian historian Nil Popov published the book “The Magyar historian Vladislav Salai and the history of Hungary from Arpad to the Pragmatic Sanction ” (“J.N.N. Pr.”, 1868, № 1 - 6, and dep. edition). This work is both a biography of the Hungarian statesman Laszlo Salai - and a brief overview of the historical fate of Hungary in general. For Russian historiography, Popov’s book was a landmark event ^[4] .

L. Salai also wrote “Stàtusferfiak könyve” (Pest, 1847-1851), biographies and characteristics of famous lawyers (in particular, Mirabeau ) and other most prominent political figures of Hungary who greatly contributed to the codification of the laws of Hungary.

Later he returned to Hungary. In 1861 he was re-elected deputy.

He died in Salzburg on July 17, 1864.

• "History of Hungary until 1706"
• "Nikolai Esterhazy, Palatin of Hungary" (Pest, 1862-66),
• "Hungarian historical sights" (Pest, 1858–65).
• A büntető eljárásról különös tekintettel az esküttszékekre (Pest, 1841)
• Státusférfiak és szónokok könyve (Pest, 1846, 1850, az MTA nagyjutalmát kapta 1847-ben)
• Diplomatische Aktenstücke zur Beleuchtung der ungarischen Gesandtschaft in Deutschland (Zürich, 1849)
• Adalékok a magyar nemzet történetéhez a XVI. században (Pest, 1859)
• I. Erdély és a porta, 1567-1578 (Pest, 1860)
• A horvát kérdéshez (Pest, 1861)
• Fiume a magyar országgyűlésen (Pest, 1861)
• Ii. Rákóczi Ferenc bujdosása (Pest, 1864)
• Galántai gr. Esterházy Miklós, Magyarország nádora, 1582–1626. (I — III., Pest, 1863–1870 névtelenül).

The biography of L. Salai was written by the Hungarian political figure and publicist Max Falk in the book Der Ungar. Historiker Ladislaus Szalay ”(him).

• Salai, Ladislav // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• Nordisk familjebok. Szalay, László (Ladislaus) (Swede)
• Biography (German)