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KALNOKY, GUSTAV SIEGMUND, COUNT (1832–1898)

KALNOKY, GUSTAV SIEGMUND, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT (1832–1898) , Austro-Hungarian statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Lettowitz, in See also:

MORAVIA (Ger., Ma/wen; Czech, Morava)

Moravia, on the 29th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1832, of an old Transylvanian See also:

FAMILY

family which had held countly See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank in See also:

Hungary from the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. After spending some years in a See also:

HUSSAR

hussar See also:

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment, in 1854 he entered the See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service without giving up his connexion with the See also:

army, in which he reached the rank of See also:

general in 1879. He was for the ten years 186o to 1870 secretary of See also:

EMBASSY

embassy at See also:

LONDON

London, and then, after serving at See also:

Rome and See also:

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, was in 188o appointed See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg. His success in See also:

Russia procured for him, on the See also:

DEATH

death of See also:

Baron v. Haymerle in 1881, the See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign affairs for See also:

Austria-Hungary, a See also:

POST

post which he held for fourteen years. Essentially a diplomatist, he took little or no See also:

PART

part in the vexed See also:

INTERNAL

internal affairs of the Dual See also:

MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

Monarchy, and he came little before the public except at the See also:

ANNUAL

annual statement on foreign affairs before the Delegations. His management of the affairs of his See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department was, however, very successful; he confirmed and maintained the See also:

ALLIANCE

alliance with See also:

Germany, which had been formed by his predecessors, and co-operated with See also:

Bismarck in the arrangements by which See also:

Italy joined the affiance. Kaln6ky's See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence was seen in the improvement of See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian relations with Russia, following on the See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of the three emperors in See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1884 at Skiernevice, at which he was See also:

PRESENT

present. His Russophile policy caused some adverse See also:

criticism in Hungary. His friendliness for Russia did not, however, prevent him from strengthening the position of Austria as against Russia in the See also:

BALKAN

Balkan See also:

Peninsula by the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of a closer See also:

POLITICAL

political and commercial understanding with See also:

SERVIA

Servia and See also:

Rumania. In 1885 he interfered after the See also:

BATTLE

battle of Slivnitza to See also:

ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest the advance of the Bulgarians on See also:

BELGRADE (Servian, Biograd or Beograd, i.e. " White Castle")

Belgrade, but he lost influence in Servia after the See also:

ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

abdication of See also:

King See also:

Milan. Though he kept aloof from the Clerical party, Kaln6ky was a strong See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic; and his sympathy for the difficulties of the See also:

Church caused adverse comment in Italy, when, in 1891, he stated in a speech before the Delegations that the question of the position of the See also:

pope was still unsettled.

He subsequently explained that by this he did not refer to the See also:

ROMAN

Roman question, which was permanently settled, but to the possibility of the pope leaving Rome. The See also:

JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt in Hungary against the Ultramontanes led to his fall. In 1895 a See also:

case of clerical interference in the internal affairs of Hungary by the See also:

NUNCIO

nuncio See also:

AGLIARDI, ANTONIO (1832– )

Agliardi aroused a strong protest in the Hungarian See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and consequent See also:

DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences between See also:

BANFFY, DEZSO [DESIDERIUS], BARON (1843– )

Banffy, the Hungarian minister, and the minister for foreign affairs led to Kaln6ky's resignation. He died on the 13th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1898 at PrShcitz in Moravia.

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