Alexander de Erény Ullmann (, 18 February 1850, in

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– 1897, in Budapest), was a Jewish Hungarian deputy and political

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. He was a son of Karl Ullmann (1809 – 1880), founder of the first Hungarian

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company, and vice-president of the

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at Pest. Ullmann was educated in Budapest and

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(LL.D. 1872), and was admitted to the bar in 1873. On the death of his father the family was elevated to the Hungarian

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. From 1884 to 1892 Ullmann represented the electoral district of Also-Arpas in the

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. In addition to numerous juridical and economic essays in the ''Pester Lloyd,'' ''Ellenör,'' and ''Neuzeit,'' Ullmann wrote the following works: ''A Részvényes Kereseti Jogáról'' (Budapest, 1877), on the right of stockholders to institute legal proceedings; ''A Kényszeregyezség Kérdéséhez'' (ib. 1879), on compulsory settlements; ''Az Ipartörvény Reviziója'' (ib. 1880), on the revision of the industrial laws; ''A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Iparkamarák Reformja'' (ib. 1882), on the reform of the Hungarian board of trade and commerce; and ''Zsidó Felekezeti Ügyek Rendezése'' (ib. 1888), on the legal regulation of Jewish affairs.

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* 1850 births 1897 deaths 19th-century Hungarian people Members of the House of Representatives of Hungary (1884–1887) Members of the House of Representatives of Hungary (1887–1892) Economists from Austria-Hungary Hungarian economists Hungarian nobility Hungarian Jews Nobility from Budapest {{Hungary-hist-stub