Hangers, Miklos

He was famous for his physical strength and successes in various sports inherited from his father. He began his political activity in 1818 in Transylvania. In 1821-1822 he made a tour of Europe in the company of his comrade Count Istvan Secheni .

He sat in the Hungarian State Assembly since 1832 and was, along with the writer Ferenc Kölchei , the leader of the liberal nobility opposition in this Sejm. In 1833, he published the book “Prejudice,” outlining the demands of the reforms that he had advocated since 1831, including the elimination of serfdom (the liberation of serfs from feudal duties for ransom) and the union of Transylvania and the Kingdom of Hungary.

The Habsburg government repeatedly harassed him for his activities, and a large trial was instituted against him on charges of treason, at which Kölchei acted as his advocate. During the trial, when a flood in Pest occurred in 1838, Vesheleni personally saved people, for which he was nicknamed árvízi hajós (flood boatman). By the verdict of the court, he received three years in prison. Blinded in prison, he was transferred from Buda Castle to the Silesian sanatorium Freivaldau ( Jeseník ) and released in 1843. He became deputy ishpan of the committee of Kolozha.

He belonged to the Lajos Kossuth party and participated in the political struggle of the Hungarian Sejm, but left it when the 1848 revolution broke out, joining the compromising Peace Party.

He wrote several political brochures, of which are known: “Balitéletek” (“Prejudice”, Bucharest, 1833) and “Szozat a magyar is szlàv nemzetiség ügyében” (“Appeal to the Magyar and Slavic nation”, Leipzig, 1843). Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1830.

• Wesselion // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.