| Alajos Degré | |
| Birth Date: | 6 January 1819 |
| Birth Place: | Lippa, Habsburg Empire |
| Death Place: | Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality: | Hungarian |
| Citizenship: | Hungarian French |
| Education: | Arad Szeged |
| Alma Mater: | Faculty of Law, Nagyvárad (1838–1840) Legal internship, Pest (1842–1843) |
| Occupation: | Lawyer Legal historian |
| Years Active: | 1843–? |
| Known For: | Hungarian Revolution of 1848 |
| Office: | may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> |
| Party: | Left Centre Independence Party |
| Spouse: | Amália Anna Koller |
| Children: | Erzsébet Miklós Katalin Etel Andor Éva Lajos |
| Mother: | Anna Rácz |
| Father: | Peter Degré |
| Relatives: | Ignác (half-brother) Franciska (sister) |
Alajos Degré (Lippa, Hungary (today in Romania), January 6, 1819 – Budapest, November 1, 1896) was Hungarian lawyer, legal historian, author and one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.[1]
He was born to a middle-class, urban family. His father was a Frenchman who worked as the chief physician of Temes County, Hungary. His mother was Anna Rácz, the raised daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, György Návay.[2] He had a half-brother, Ignác from his father's first marriage and a sister, Franciska. Because of his father's early death Temes County took over the costs of the education of the Degré children. He did his secondary-school studies in Arad and Szeged. Then he went to Nagyvárad where he studied law for two years. In 1842 he started to work as a jurist in Pest where he got interested in politics and made friends with Lajos Kossuth. The liberal ideas inflamed his thinking so he joined these political circles and took part on their events where he was asked to hold a welcome speech for Kossuth. In 1843 he took the attorney's examination and moved to Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia) to work as a royal board notary at the National Assembly of Hungary.[3]
He was married to Amália Anna Koller.[4] They had together seven children – four daughters and three sons: