Aleksandar Bresztyenszky, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian jurist and politician
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About Aleksandar Bresztyenszky
- Aleksandar Bresztyenszky (September 6, 1843, Precec – May 9, 1904, Pleso near Velika Gorica) was a Croatian law writer and politician, professor and rector of the University of Zagreb. He studied law in Zagreb and Budapest, where he received his Ph.D.
- in 1868.
- He was the head of the Cathedra of Hungarian-Croatian Civil Law at the Law Academy, and soon after in 1874 on Law and State Faculty within the newly established Royal University of Franz Joseph I.
- In the inaugural rectorship ceremony for Stjepan Spevec, he held a welcome speech announcing the ceremony.
- He served as rector in the academic year 1880/1881, and after his mandate expired he founded Foundation Anke Bresztyenszky b.
- Å tefanic for the best student expert discussion (a precursor to what is today Rector's Award).
- He served as a prorector in the academic year 1881-82. After leaving the Unionist Party and the 1894 retirement, he began his publicist activity having joined the opposition as a leader of the Party of Rights.
- He was a city representative in Zagreb, and a representative in the parliament.
- He advocated unification of the Western and Eastern Church. A street in Zagreb was named after him in 1933.
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