Horvath, MICHAEL (1809-78), Hungarian historian, was professor of Hungarian in Vienna, Bishop of Csanad, and, in the revolutionary war, minister of public instruction. He returned from exile in 1867, and is remembered for his History of Hungary to 1823 (1842-46), and its continuations, Twenty-five Years of Hungarian History, 1823-48 (2 vols. 1863), and History of the War of Independence in Hungary (3 vols. 1865).
Horvath, MICHAEL
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 801–802
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