Dr. Sándor Kozma de Leveld (9 September 1825 – 5 August 1897) was a
Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as the first
Crown Prosecutor of Hungary from 1872 to 1896.
Biography
Kozma was born into a noble family. His brother was Ferenc, a ministerial counsellor and agronomist. Sándor finished his secondary studies in
Sopron,
Pécs and
Pápa, in the latter as a schoolmate of
Sándor Petőfi,
Mór Jókai and
Károly Kerkapoly. He studied law in
Pressburg
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(''Pozsony''; today ''Bratislava, Slovakia''). He became a lawyer in 1847.
On 13 March 1848, he announced the achievements of the First Vienna Uprising in Pressburg. In the Diet of 1848, he served as aide for Szegedy, later the radical László Madarász, both of them envoys from
Somogy County. He participated in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848, he fought against the Serbs in the southern territories. After the defeat of the Independence War, he was enlisted in the
Austrian Imperial Army, but was fired soon. He was interned in the 1850s, he worked as a lawyer in Somogy County under police surveillance.
He was elected Member of Parliament to the Diet of 1861. He was a member of the
Address Party led by
Ferenc Deák. He was appointed head of department in the Ministry of Justice in 1867, during the ministership of
Boldizsár Horvát. He served as judge of the Supreme Court of the
Curia Regia since September 1869.
After the establishment of the prosecution system in 1872, he became the first Crown Prosecutor of
Budapest but his competence extended to the whole country. He oversaw and supervised the operation of detention facilities, as a result he was called "''Father of the Prisons''". He edited the ''Magyar Igazságügy'' ("Hungarian Justice") between 1880 and 1893.
Kozma retired in 1896. He was awarded Commanders' Cross of the
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by
Francis Joseph I of Austria. He died on 5 August 1897. His tomb inscription: "''Apostle of the justice and humaneness, incarnation of the Hungarian law, father and forever leading figure of the Crown Prosecution''" (by
Gusztáv Gegus
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).
External links
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
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1825 births
1897 deaths
People from Somogy County
Hungarian jurists