Agost Pulszky’s A Sociological Doctrine of the State

August (Hung.: Ágoston) Pulszky was the founding father of the sociology in Hungary in the middle of the 19th century. His father who was sentenced to death in effigie (in his absence) for revolutionary activity during the Hungarian Revolution 1848-49, was forced living in emigration, his son studied in secondary schools both in Torino and London. Having given a royal pardon in 1861 the family return to Hungary and August graduated in law. Pulszky swiftly became the head of the department of the philosophy of law and state in 1875. In his lectures he always presented the audience with not only the juridical understending of the concept in question but he explains the historical background and social context as well. His main book (A jog- és állambölcsészet alaptanai, 1885) was based on the methodological doctrines of August Comte and Herbert Spencer, and it carried  out an independent social theory that was followed a history of mankind up to the contemporary situation. He-himself wrote his book in English entitled The Theory of Law and Civil Society (Fisher Unwin, London1888). The author after giving an analysis of Pulszky’s genral theory of historical development, thenafter he digresses Pulszky’s doctrine about the democracy and the labor question.