Deák Ágnes: Az 1868-as nemzetiségi törvény osztrák szemmel. In: Acta Universitatis Szegediensis : acta historica, (Különs). pp. 73-80. (1991)
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Abstract
At the end of 19th century Europe had an image of Hungary as a fire-trap of unsolved national conflicts. In spite of this fact the Nationality Act legislated in 1868 was one of the greatest achievements of the Hungarian liberal reform movement in the last century. That is why it is important to know whether the European political public opinion had knowledge of this act and of the efforts which brought it into existence. The Belgian review of international law, Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée published an article on this act in two parts in 1869—70. The author was Hermann Ignaz Bidermann, professor of statistics and legal history at the University of Innsbruck and Graz in Austria. Bidermann reviewed the provisions of the law in every detail, and he gave an outline of the Hungarian history in order to make the reader understand the historical roots of the conflicts. But he mingled the elements of the modern national consciousness and the objects of the modern nationalism emerging only at the beginning of 19th century with the facts of Hungarian history in the Middle Ages, so he drew an entirely false picture of the preceding centuries, as if they had been only a succession of national struggles. According to Bidermann the most characteristic feature of the history of the multi-national Hungary during the centuries was the constant ambition of the Hungarians to oppress the other ethnic groups living in the country. He identified the interests of the absolutist imperial governement with those of the Slavic and German people living in the empire and he rigorously contrasted these with the object of the Hungarian liberal reform movement. Because of the not genuinely historical view-point Bidermann could not give the real historical causes of the national conflicts, so he could interprete only the myth of 'the oppressive nation' for the European public opinion.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Other title: | The nationality act of 1868 in Hungary from an Austrian point of view |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis : acta historica |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Volume: | Különs |
| ISSN: | 0324-6965 |
| Page Range: | pp. 73-80 |
| Language: | Hungarian, English |
| Publisher: | University of Szeged, Magyar Medievisztikai Kutatócsoport |
| Place of Publication: | Szeged |
| Related URLs: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/37165/ |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Nemzetiségi jog - Magyarország - 1868, Nemzetiségi törvény - Magyarország - 1868 |
| Additional Information: | Bibliogr. a lábjegyzetekben ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.01. History and archaeology |
| Date Deposited: | 2016. Oct. 15. 07:57 |
| Last Modified: | 2026. Feb. 03. 13:47 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/3060 |
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