!!!Fischhof, Adolf

Fischhof, Adolf, b. Ofen (Budapest), Dec. 18, 1816, 
d. Emmersdorf (Carinthia), March 23, 1893, politician, physician and 
author. It is assumed that his speech about the freedom of the press, 
which he delivered in the courtyard of the Lower Austrian Landhaus in 
Vienna, contributed substantially to the outbreak of the  March 
Revolution in Vienna in 1848. Was appointed President of the Vienna 
Security Committee and was a member of the Reichstag. After the 
revolution had been put down, F. became an exponent of revolutionary 
liberalism in his writings. He was of the opinion that the only 
solution to the "nationality" problem within the Austrian empire was 
to establish equality among all peoples.

!Works
Oesterreich und die Buergschaften seines Bestandes, 1869; Der 
oesterreichische Sprachzwist, 1888.

!Literature
S. Walz, Staat, Nationalitaet und juedische Identitaet in 
Oesterreich vom 18. Jahrhundert bis 1914, 1996; OeBL.



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