Count Ladislav Pejačević of
Virovitica ( en, Ladislaus Peyachevich of Virovitica, hr, Ladislav Pejačević Virovitički, hu, Pejácsevics László;
Sopron
Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő.
History
Ancient times-13th century
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Kingdom of Hungary
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5 April 1824 –
Našice, 7 April 1901) was a
Croatian aristocrat and statesman, a member of the
Pejačević noble family, remarkable and influential in the
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the
Ban (viceroy) of
Croatia
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between 1880 and 1883.
Biography
Ladislav Pejačević was the eldest son of Ferdinand Karlo Rajner /''Ferdinand Charles
Rainer''/ (1800–1878) whose mother was Hungarian Countess Mária Eleonóra née Erdődy /monyorókeréki and monoszlói branch/ (1769—1840). His wife was Marija /''Mary''/ née Döry de Jobaháza. His grandfather Karlo III Ferdinand was the founder of Našice branch of the family.
On November 25, 1852, he married the baroness Gabrijela /''
Gabrielle''/ Döry de Jobaháza and they had three children: Marija,
Teodor
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* Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393.
* Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw
* Teod ...
/''
Theodore''/ and Mario Marko Aleksandar.
Pejačević entered politics as a young man, having become an assessor at the
Croatian Parliament
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seat in Zagreb from 1844 until 1848. As a very influential Croatian politician, he was member of Parliament from the
Unionist Party of Croatia and member of the delegation of Parliament that signed the
Croatian-Hungarian Agreement in 1868. In 1880
Sabor
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- the Parliament of Croatia - elected him as
Ban of Croatia, and he stayed in office from February 21, 1880, until September 4, 1883.
As the reincorporation of the
Croatian and
Slavonian Frontiers into Croatian-Slavonian Crown land was proclaimed on July 15, 1881, Pejačević was given the task to perform it. On August 1, 1881, he took over the administration of the former ''Frontiers''.
On August 24, 1883, he quit after the Council of ministers in
Vienna
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concluded that bilingual Croatian-Hungarian official emblems in
Croatia
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, installed by the Hungarian administration, should stay and were not allowed to be removed from the official buildings. On 4 September 1883
Hermann Ramberg
Hermann von Ramberg (24 November 1820, in Vienna – 26 December 1899, in Graz) was an Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern ...
became the royal commissioner with Ban authorities. Ramberg was then succeeded by
Károly Khuen-Héderváry, a Hungarian political hardliner, whose reign was marked by strong
Hungarization.
During his life, Ladislav Pejačević invested a lot to improve and enlarge business activities of his estates, and contributed to beauty and glamour of his castles, palaces and parks, especially the
Našice castle. He died in
Našice on April 7, 1901, and left his property to his son
Teodor
Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Notable people with the name include:
* Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393.
* Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw
* Teod ...
.
See also
*
House of Pejačević
*
Ban of Croatia
Ban of Croatia ( hr, Hrvatski ban) was the title of local rulers or office holders and after 1102, viceroys of Croatia. From the earliest periods of the Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by bans as a ruler's representative (viceroy) an ...
*
Croatian nobility
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*
Teodor Pejačević
References
* Rudolf Horvat, "''Najnovije doba hrvatske povijesti''", Zagreb, 1906.
* Neda Engelsfeld: "''Povijest hrvatske države i prava: razdoblje od 18. do 20. stoljeća''", Pravni fakultet, Zagreb, 2002.
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
External links
Ladislav Pejačević – member of the noble family that owned a large number of castlesLadislav Pejačević – the owner of Našice estateGenealogy and heraldry of the Pejačević noble familyKip domovine leta 188* a short story by
Antun Gustav Matoš depicting an episode from the revolt that led to the end of Pejačević's banhood.
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Ladislav
Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava.
Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada.
Spellings and variations
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1824 births
1901 deaths
Bans of Croatia
Counts of Croatia
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
People from Slavonia
19th-century Croatian people
19th-century Croatian nobility
20th-century Croatian nobility