Baron Lajos Simonyi de Barbács et Vitézvár (13 April 1824 – 12 December 1894) was a Hungarian

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 politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade between 1875 and 1876. He studied law in Kassa

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. From 1847 he was a delegate on the Diet in Pest. He participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

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, he performed courier service besides Artúr Görgey

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. As a result he was imprisoned for a short time. Later he was a supporter of László Teleki

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. Simonyi retired from the politics in 1878.