László Szalay

László Szalay, portrait by
Bertalan Székely

László Szalay de Kéménd (April 18, 1813 – July 17, 1864) was a Hungarian statesman and historian.

Szalay was born in Buda. After the completion of his studies, he became a member of the Hungarian diet, and in 1848 he represented Hungary in the German national parliament at Frankfurt. He took part in the revolution of 1848–49, and was obliged to seek refuge in Switzerland, where he wrote his history of Hungary. This important work, published at Budapest (1856–1860), extends to 1707. Szalay also wrote remarkable studies on Pitt, Fox, Mirabeau and other statesmen, and contributed very considerably to the codification of Magyar law. In later life he returned to Hungary, but he died at Salzburg on July 17, 1864. His family afterwards returned to Hungary hidden in which they adopted the last name Nemeth, World War 2 started and his daughter was victim of the German occupation of Hungary, German soldiers tortured her and killed her husband, they escaped to Austria again and she got married with Joseph Szalay, he adopted the kids of the previous father and escaped to Venezuela. After some years one of his sons died on an accident on Maraven during an oil strike. The great grand daughter of László Szalay de Kéménd Veronica Nemeth Anez escaped Venezuela in 2018 in which is currently living in the City of Miami with her 2 kids Alejandro Andres Vargas Nemeth and Elena Beatriz Vargas Nemeth.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Szalay, Ladislas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 318.

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