Count Teleky Laszlo, a Hungarian statesman, born in Pesth, Feb. 11, 1811, died there, May 8, 1861. He studied at Pesth and Patak, wrote a drama, Kegyencz ("Favorite"), and became a leading opposition member of the diets of Transylvania and Hungary. In September, 1848, he went as envoy of the Hungarian government to Paris, where he published Le bon droit de la Hongrie (1849). After the close of the Hungarian war he resided mainly in Paris. During the war of 1859 he was a member of the Hungarian national committee in Italy, and in 1860 went to Dresden, where he was arrested and surrendered to the Austrian government. Francis Joseph restored him to liberty on the promise of severing his connection with the Hungarian refugees and abstaining from political agitation. After a few months, however, Teleky accepted an election by his former constituents to the house of representatives. The diet was opened April 6, 1861. The debate on the address to the monarch, prepared by Francis Deak, was to open on May 8, and Teleky, the leader of the radicals, who opposed any measure looking like a recognition of Francis Joseph as king of Hungary, prepared an elaborate discourse on the situation.

This was found on his desk on the morning of the 8th, and near it on the floor the dead body of the writer, whom, as various indications showed, dissatisfaction with his own course had led to end his life by a pistol shot.