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Kossuth Lajos
born Sept. 19, 1802, Monok, Hung. died March 20, 1894, Turin, Italy Hungarian patriot. A lawyer from a noble family, he was sent to the national Diet (1832), where he developed his radical political and social philosophy. Imprisoned on political charges (1837-40), he later wrote for a reform journal and gained a devoted following. Reelected to the Diet (1847-49), he led the "national opposition," and after the February Revolution (1848) he persuaded the delegates to vote for independence from Austria. Appointed provisional governor, he became virtual dictator of Hungary. In 1849 Russian armies intervened on behalf of Austria, forcing Kossuth to resign. He fled to Turkey, where he was interned for two years. After his release he lectured in the U.S. and England, and later, from his home in Turin, he watched Hungary reconcile itself with the Austrian monarchy. After the Compromise of 1867, he retired from political life
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
born Dec. 10, 1851, Adams Center, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 26, 1931, Lake Placid, Fla. U.S. librarian. He graduated from Amherst College in 1874, whereupon he became acting librarian there. In 1876 he published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library, in which he outlined the Dewey Decimal Classification system. He was one of the founders of the American Library Association and of Library Journal (both 1876). He set up the School of Library Economy, the first U.S. institution for training librarians. He also reorganized the N.Y. State Library (1889-1906) and established the system of traveling libraries and picture collections. A cofounder of the Spelling Reform Assn., he respelled his own name