person
Count István Illésházy
Illésházy
also: Illésházy István gróf
Count István Illésházy (1762–1838), last male member of the once-great Illésházy magnate family; his former residence at Teplic became the main inn there, and his preserved furniture at Dubnica is a central object in Madách's meditation on historical forgetting.
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- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §126 Count István Illésházy
Count István Illésházy (1762–1838), the last male member of the Illésházy family, once great magnates of Upper Hungary; his former dwelling became the main inn at Teplic, a symbol of noble decline that Madách reflects on with melancholy.