Széchenyi István az 1847–1848-as országgyűlésen

In my paper I delineated the parliamentary activity of István Széchenyi (1791– 1860) focused on the parliament in 1847–1848, which is the last feudal diet in the collective consiousness, but according to my point of view the revolution and its episodes overshadowed it. Széchenyi acted the most of the other diets here, because he wanted to compensate the activity of Lajos Kossuth – Széchenyi conceived Kossuth’s politics will push the country into a revolution. To reach his purpose, he gave up his place in the upper chamber and elected himself as a legate in the lower house in Moson county. Széchenyi and Kossuth had several debates in the parliament, one of them was the railway line between Vukovár and Fiume. Nevertheless, in the days of the revolution Széchenyi realized that politics of Kossuth is more effective, and – testified his human magnificence – started to support his earlier opponent. Széchenyi had a great mediation on the legal framework of the revolution’s episodes, and he was a minister of the first independent Hungarian government. According to these facts we can declare: Széchenyi had a significant role in the procreation of the democratic, parliamentary Hungary in the 19th century