16 Facts About Bertalan Szemere

Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian poet and nationalist who became the third Prime Minister of Hungary during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when Hungary was independent of rule by the Austrian Empire.

Bertalan Szemere's father was Major Laszlo Szemere, his mother was Erzsebet Karove.

Bertalan Szemere was interested in writing poems and his works were published in the periodical.

Bertalan Szemere was influenced by Ferenc Kolcsey and Mihaly Vorosmarty.

In 1832 Bertalan Szemere graduated as a jurist and started to work as an apprentice in Pressburg and became a member of the Parliamentary Young Members' Group and advocated liberal principles.

In 1835 Bertalan Szemere travelled around the world and visited amongst other places Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Lausanne, Paris and London.

Bertalan Szemere wrote down his experience, and how foreign institutions developed and worked.

Bertalan Szemere's diary made him famous and he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1848 Bertalan Szemere was the Home Secretary of the Batthyany Government.

From 1848 Bertalan Szemere was responsible for Upper-Hungary as a politician, therefore he was at Miskolc to reorganize the Upper-Tisza Legion, which had retreated after Franz Schlik's attack.

From 2 May 1849 Bertalan Szemere was Home Secretary and Prime Minister alongside Regent Lajos Kossuth, until his resignation.

Bertalan Szemere escaped to Turkey, and later emigrated to Paris.

Bertalan Szemere supported the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and because of this his relationship with Kossuth became worse.

Bertalan Szemere attacked the Hungarian Revolution's leaders in his pamphlet and in another work.

In 1865 Bertalan Szemere successfully requested a pardon, but he was mentally ill by that time.

In 1869 Bertalan Szemere died and his ashes were interred in Buda, but on 1 May 1871 they were disinterred and moved to a church in the Avas district of Miskolc.