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Zsigmond Kemény

Died in 1875

Zsigmond Kemény was born in Alvinc, in Transylvania, on 12 June 1814, into a family of barons left without fortune by inheritance quarrels. A pupil at the college of Nagyenyed, he studied law at Marosvásárhely in 1837, then followed courses in natural sciences and medicine in Vienna. A contributor to the Erdélyi Híradó of Kolozsvár from 1841 and a supporter of Széchenyi, he then took over the direction of the Pesti Napló in Pest; he spent his last years in retirement in Transylvania and died on 22 December 1875.

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