The Döbling “Press Office”
The Döbling “Press Office”

Summary/Abstract: It is often said that Lajos Kossuth was Hungary’s first truly modern political journalist. In fact, almost a decade earlier, in 1832, Count István Széchenyi edited Jelenkor (Present Day), whose form and content was similar to newspapers elsewhere in Europe. It is therefore not surprising that as his mental condition improved towards the end of the 1850s, he found a way to keep the outside world informed about the real state of affairs inside Hungary, even from his Döbling sanatorium confines, and charted the course of his own recovery and engagement in politics. Even the born-and-bred newspaper man Miksa Falk was taken by the ingenuity and versatility of Széchenyi’s ideas (surrounded by informers, he needed every ounce of inventiveness and discretion).

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