Abstract
<jats:p>The study deals with an important figure of 19th-century Hungarian legal science, who also had Czech roots. Professor Anton Virozsil (1792–1868) was born into a simple family in Banská Štiavnica. He originally prepared for a career in the Catholic priesthood, but ultimately chose to pursue legal studies. After obtaining his degree, he first taught at the Law Academy in Pozsony (Present-day Bratislava), and then for several decades in Pest at the local university. His activities coincided with the years when the reform program of the Hungarian liberal opposition was taking shape, with which the professor, who did not speak Hungarian well, could not identify, particularly due to its linguistic assimilation efforts. At the same time, he was critical of the constitutional views of the Hungarian noble opposition. He saw the possibility of the emergence of a modern constitutional and bureaucratic state primarily in Austria (after liberal reforms). During the revolutionary year of 1848, he was one of the last university lectures in Pest to teach in Latin before he retired. After the victory of Austrian neoabsolutism that suppressed the revolution, the Austrian government reactivated him, and in the following decade, he became the rector. During this time he leaded the unpopular educational reforms of Hungarian university education. After colaps of neoabsolutistic regime he removed to Vienna, where teached the Hungarian public law for university students. He was author of many important publications (in Latin, German and Hungarin) about the traditional Hungarian constitutional law, legal encyclopedy and methodology.</jats:p>