Elek Csány de Csány (1810 – 18 June 1847) was a Hungarian nobleman and

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, who served as deputy magistrate (1834–40), then chief magistrate (''főszolgabíró'') of district of Kapornak (1840–44) in

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(today Krplivnik, Slovenia).

Biography

He was born into an old noble family as the son of István Csány (1790–1849) and Mária Forintos de Forintosháza (1791–1854). His maternal grandparents were Károly Forintos de Forintosháza (1763–1834), landowner and Anna Farkas de Gulács (1770–1805). He had a sister Mária Csány (1816–84). His uncle was László Csány, a notable liberal politician of the

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and Minister of Public Works and Transport during the

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, who was executed for his revolutionary role in October 1849. Elek Csány was elected chief magistrate with the support of his uncle against his brother-in-law Károly Rumy (1807–77). Elek Csány married Szidónia Inkey (1820–86) in 1843, who, as a widow, had a

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with statesman Ferenc Deák, and later got married again to Géza Báthor. Csány and his wife had three daughters: Paulina, Melánia and Karolina. Elek Csány died of pneumonia on 18 June 1847.

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Elek Elek (, ) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Until the Second World War, the town was home to the largest concentration of Germans in the county, with its population consisting almost entirely ...