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APPONYI, ALBERT, COUNT (1846- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 226 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APPONYI, See also:ALBERT, See also:COUNT (1846- ) , Hungarian states-See also:man, the most distinguished member of an See also:ancient See also:noble See also:family, dating back to the 13th See also:century, and son of the See also:chancellor Gyorgy Apponyi (1808-1899) and the accomplished and saintly Countess Julia Sztaray, was See also:born at Pesth on the 29th of May 1846. Educated at the Jesuit See also:seminary at Kalksburg and at the See also:universities of See also:Vienna and Pesth, a See also:long See also:foreign tour completed his curriculum, and at See also:Paris he made the acquaintance of See also:Montalembert, a kindred spirit, whose See also:influence on the See also:young Apponyi was permanent. He entered See also:parliament in 1872 as a liberal See also:Catholic, attaching himself at first to the See also:Deak party; but the feudal and ultramontane traditions of his family circle profoundly modified, though they could never destroy, his popular ideals. On the break up of the Dealt party he attached himself to the conservative See also:group which followed See also:Baron See also:Pal Senynyey (1824-1888) and eventually became its See also:leader. Until 1905 Count Albert was constantly in opposition, but in May of that See also:year he consented to take See also:office in the second See also:Wekerle See also:ministry. A lofty and magnetic orator, his speeches were published at See also:Budapest in 1896; and he is the author of an interesting dissertation, Esthetics and Politics, the Artist and the Statesman ;Hung.) (Budapest, 1895).

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