A champion of minority rights in Hungary was expelled by his own parliament

Evidence

According to the calculations of Lajos Mocsáry (Some Words on the Nationality Problem, Budapest, 1886), cited in ibid., pp. 331–332. Mocsáry (1826–1916) had in 1874 established a small Independence Party in the Hungarian parliament to fight for Kossuth’s ideas, particularly on the minorities question. His speeches denouncing Tisza’s blatant violations of the 1868 Nationalities Law led first to his physical extrusion from parliament and then expulsion from his own party. In 1888, he was returned to parliament from a wholly Romanian constituency and became largely a political outcast. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes martyr figures in Things Fall Apart and colonial-institution resistance — an early social scientist destroyed for publishing uncomfortable truths about his own nation.
• BMF: Grünwald’s fate — publishing research showing the noble ‘counties’ were parasites, then drowning himself in the Seine after public obloquy — evokes the scholar-martyr pattern in Farah’s Maps, where bearing uncomfortable knowledge about identity carries mortal cost.