Lazar Hellenbach: Opposition und Regierung. In Prague 1842–46. studied law and chamber disciplines as well as classical, philosophical, historical and natural sciences. Year In 1851 he moved to Croatia. He participated in the work of the Croatian Parliament in 1861 and 1865–68. and 1872–73. and was a member of banking conferences and committees for railways and savings banks in 1862–63. He belonged to a group of moderate unionists, and apart from his extremely liberal views, he also stood out for the fact that he advocated the idea of Croatian economic and financial independence in the resolution of state-law relations between Croatia and Hungary. Because of this, as well as because of his strong resistance to the centralist efforts of the Viennese court, he was close to the People's Party, although he never joined it. Dissatisfied with the Croatian-Hungarian settlement concluded in 1868, he was in opposition to the regime of Ban L. Rauch. After the fall of the Rauch regime in 1871, Hellenbach mediated during 1872 with the People's Party to agree to a revision of the Settlement and the assumption of power. When the People's Party came to power in Croatia in 1873, Hellenbach retired from political life and devoted himself to philosophy.