Ágoston Trefort
| Ágoston Trefort | |
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| Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary | |
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In office 4 September 1872 – 22 August 1888 |
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| Preceded by | Tivadar Pauler |
| Succeeded by | Gábor Baross |
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| Born |
7 February 1817 Homonna, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 22 August 1888 (aged 71) Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Political party |
Deák Party Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ilona Alojzia Erzsébet Rosty de Barkócz |
| Children | Edit Ervin Mária |
| Profession | politician, jurist |
Dr. Ágoston Trefort (7 February 1817 – 22 August 1888) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1885.
He was born into a Hungarian Catholic family of Walloon origin. Trefort was born in Homonna, Zemplén County, Hungary (now:Humenné, Slovakia), a small town in the county of Zemplén. His great-grandfather worked as a lawyer in Belgium, his medical officer grandfather came to Hungary in the 1770s. Ágoston's father was Ignác Trefort (1770–1831), a famous surgeon, and his mother was Tekla Beldovics (died 1829). They married in 1816, when Ignác's first wife died. They had three children: Ágoston, Antal (died in his infancy) and István (born 1825, year of death unknown).
He already spoke on the time of his grammar school studies in German, in Latin and in Slovak. Trefort lost his parents during the cholera epidemic of 1831. He found his way under Countess Petronella Csáky's guardianship. He studied on the Lyceum of Eger, then he started his higher studies on the Faculty of Law of the University of Pest. He learnt in English, in French and in Italian, thanking for his excellent gift for languages duly. Then he made his juridical practice at the district board on Eperjes. Trefort finished his studies at the age of eighteen.
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