Mór Jókai
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Móricz Jókay of Ásva, known as Mór Jókai, was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. Outside of Hungary, he was also known as Maurice Jókai or Maurus Jókai or Mauritius Jókai. He was a lea
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Jókai in 1854; lithograph by Miklós Barabás
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Jókai in his study; photograph by Mór Erdélyi [hu]
Statue of Mór Jókai by Alajos Stróbl in Jókai Square, Budapest
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 was one of a number of European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other
Mór Jókai
…and revolutionary. Outside of Hungary, he was also known as Maurice Jókai or Maurus Jókai or Mauritius Jókai. He was a leader of the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in Pest. His romantic novels became widely popular among the elite of Victorian England, where he was often compared to Charles Dickens by the press…
Artist Mihály Zichy's painting of Sándor Petőfi reciting the National Song to a crowd on 15 March 1848
State portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece (by Leopold Kupelwieser, c. 1847)
The entrance room of the Pilvax coffee palace at Pest in the 1840s
The National Song being recited at the National Museum