Dénes Lukács (1816 in Oradea – 1 April 1868 in Nádudvar) was a lieutenant colonel in the

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and

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commander. As a young officer he taught the young

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artillery skills, but at the age of 32 he became was the main organiser of the Hungarian artillery during the

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and 1848/49 war of independence. Initially he was a lieutenant, but was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in January 1849 in

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. He was not himself involved in frontline combat but was the organizer of artillery production, training of artillerymen and city defenses. He was evacuated as the Austrians advanced, until the Hungarian surrender. In 1850 he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was reduced to 16 years' imprisonment of which he eventually served 6. While in the prison at

Komárom Komárom (Hungarian: ; german: Komorn; la, Brigetio, later ; sk, Komárno) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárno, Slovakia, is on the northern bank. Komárom was formerly a separate villag ...

he became the maker of the first

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in Hungary.Der Globusfreund: Issues 43-44 Coronelli World League of Friends of the Globe, Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde - 1995 "The plates and segments were prepared by Dénes Lukács in the Komarom prison. He was the main organiser of the Hungarian artillery during the 1848/49 war of independence and in 1850 he was sentenced to death, but pardoned and received 16 years of imprisonment. During his imprisonment to the order from Gustav." Following his release from prison in 1856, he in 1860 became superintendent of an orphanage in Nádudvar till his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lukacs, Denes 1816 births 1868 deaths Hungarian soldiers Hungarian cartographers Hungarian people of Armenian descent 19th-century cartographers