Századok – 2017
2017 / 3. szám - KONFERENCIA GRÓF DESSEWFFY EMIL HALÁLÁNAK 150. ÉVFORDULÓJA ALKALMÁBÓL - Völgyesi Orsolya: Gróf Dessewffy Emil az 1843–44. évi országgyűlésen
GRÓF DESSEWFFY EMIL AZ 1843–44. ÉVI ORSZÁGGYŰLÉSEN 512 COUNT EMIL DESSEWFFY AT THE HUNGARIAN DIET OF 1843–44 by Orsolya Völgyesi SUMMARY Count Emil Dessewffy, already well known as a public author chiefly engegaged with economic issues, first appeared at the Hungarian diet in March 1844. Following in the footsteps of his prematurely deceased elder brother Aurél, the young count joined the new conservatives in the Upper Chamber. His utterances there attracted considerable attention right from the start. The paper deals in more detail with two episodes, two debates in both of which the chief opponent of Dessewffy was the leader of the oppsition Centralists, baron József Eötvös. The two young aristocrats presented their respective views on important constitutional questions such as the comital system, the commissions enforced by the county community on their MPs, the peculiarities of Hungarian public opinion, the necessity of centralisation or the imitation of foreign models, thus foreshadowing the chief elements of the debate between the two political wings that was to take place on the pages of the Pesti Hirlap and the Budapesti Hiradó from the summer of 1844 on.
