1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
VERBOCZY, ISTVAN [STEPHEN WERBOCZ] (i46s?-iS4i), Hungarian jurist and statesman, first became known as a scholar and theologian of such eminence that he was appointed to accompany the emperor Charles V. to Worms, to take up the cudgels against Luther. He began his political career as the deputy of the county of Ugocsa to the diet of 1498, where his eloquence and scholarship had a great effect in procuring the extension of the privileges of the gentry and the exclusion of all foreign competitors for the Hungarian th…
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