Boldizsár Horvát Explained

Boldizsár Horvát
Order:Minister of Justice of Hungary
Term Start:20 February 1867
Term End:5 June 1871
Predecessor:Sebő Vukovics
Successor:István Bittó
Birth Date:1822 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Szombathely, Kingdom of Hungary
Death Place:Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Children:Gizella
Profession:politician, writer, poet
Party:Deák Party, Liberal Party

Boldizsár Horvát (1 January 1822 – 28 October 1898) was a Hungarian politician, poet and novelist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1867 and 1871 in the government of Gyula Andrássy. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kisfaludy Society.

In 1991, a street in northern Zugló, or Budapest's fourteenth district, was named in his honour.

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