provided free language use for ethnic groups in local administration and education. The government's aim was to win the support of the ethnic groups for the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Emigration After the Hungarian surrender at Világos Szemere buried the Holy Crown of Hungary, the Sceptre, the orb and other regalia on 23 August 1849 at Orsova. He escaped to Turkey, and later emigrated to Paris. In 1851 the Austrian Empire sentenced him to death in absentia. Szemere supported the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and because of this his relationship with Kossuth became worse. Szemere attacked the Hungarian Revolution's leaders in his pamphlet ( ("Hungarian Emigration" )) and in another work ( ("Political Word-picture")). Szemere attacked Kossuth too. During his emigration Szemere wrote a travelogue ("Journeys in the East"). In 1865 Szemere successfully requested a pardon, but he was mentally ill by that time. In 1869 Szemere died and his ashes were interred in Buda, but on 1 May 1871 they were disinterred and moved to a church in the Avas district of Miskolc. Sources External links 1812 births 1869 deaths People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Prime Ministers of Hungary People of the Revolutions of 1848 Hungarian Interior Ministers Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 19th-century Hungarian politicians 19th-century Hungarian poets Hungarian male poets 19th-century Hungarian male writers