Haynau egyházi áldozatai
Haynau's clerical victims

Summary/Abstract: The massive participation of the Hungarian clergy in the war of independence of 1848-1849 was a disappointment for government circles in Vienna. Accordingly, especially within the Catholic church, there was a desire to remove all revolutionary, "seditious" elements from among the clergy. The paper analyses the activities of the clerics executed during the activity of General Haynau in Hungary. The fact that the victims included Lutheran, Calvinist pastors and Catholic priests would seem to confirm that the war of independence of 1848-1849 had no denominational character. The lives, careers, and personal traits of the victims varied. Lutheran pastor Pál Rázga became an important participant in the events in Pozsony through his political and ideological liberalism. In the case of the victory of Hungarian liberals, there was a good chance, he thought, that „Magyars, Slovaks, and Germans [live in this country] freely and happily with respect to their national equality”. He was executed in Pozsony on June 18, 1849 after a lengthy court martial procedure.[...]

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