Louis Kossuth - Los Angeles, CA
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N 34° 01.055 W 118° 17.220
11S E 381169 N 3764853
A sculpture of Hungarian President Louis Kossuth at the Exposition Park Rose Garden in Los Angeles, California.
Waymark Code: WM17FBX
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/11/2023
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Taken from the website, "Dimensions:
Bust: approx. 3 ft. x 24 in. x 14 in.; Base: approx. 7 ft. x 16 in. x 12 in.
Inscription:
A. FINTA 54 ROMAN BRONZES INC. NYC. (On front of base:) LOUIS KOSSUTH/1802-1894/HUNGARIAN PATRIOT VISITED.../AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Upper torso and head of a bearded man in uniform."
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (pronounced ['l?jo? 'ko?ut], Hungarian: udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, Slovak: Ludovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–1849.
With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of the Kingdom of Hungary. As the influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior."[2][3]
Kossuth's powerful English and American speeches so impressed and touched the famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he wrote a book about Kossuth's life.[4] He was widely honoured during his lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: Father of Hungarian Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848–1849."
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