József Ágoston de Kisjóka (1800 – 9 March 1860) was a Hungarian lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP).

His life

Ágoston was born in

Hatvan Hatvan ( German: ''Hottwan)'' is a town in Heves County, Hungary. Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is the county's third most populous town following Eger and Gyöngyös. Etymology Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is a com ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, the son of Ferenc Ágoston, a major judge in the counties of

Borsod Borsod was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna County and Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Aba ...

, Gömör, and

Heves Heves is a small town in eastern Hungary. About 100 km east of Budapest, Heves lies at the northern extreme of the Great Hungarian Plain, just south of the Mátra and Bükk hills and west of the Tisza River. Heves gave its name to Heves Cou ...

. He worked as a lawyer in Pest for nearly 40 years. His speeches on the Assembly of the County are registered in the newspaper ''Törvényhatósági Tudósítások'' edited by

Lajos Kossuth Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (; ; ; ; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, r ...

. In the Parliament between 1848 and 1849 he represented the constituency of Dédes. He died in Pest.

His works

#Felelet maithsteini nemes Wildner Ignácznak bizonyos magyar váltó jogi kérdés feletti őszinte véleményére. Pest, 1844. #Vasútügy cikke megjelent a Pesti Naplóban 1854. 248. sz.

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Agoston, Jozsef 1800 births 1860 deaths People from Hatvan Members of the House of Representatives of Hungary (1848–1849) Lawyers from the Austrian Empire 19th-century Hungarian lawyers