COUNT

See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT

See also:

• COUNT ALBERT APPONYI (1846- )

APPONYI (1846- )  , Hungarian states-man, the most distinguished member of an ancient noble family, dating back to the 13th century, and son of the chancellor Gyorgy Apponyi (1808-1899) and the accomplished and saintly Countess Julia Sztaray, was born at Pesth on the 29th of May 1846 . Educated at the Jesuit seminary at Kalksburg and at the universities of Vienna and Pesth, a long foreign tour completed his curriculum, and at Paris he made the acquaintance of Montalembert, a kindred spirit, whose influence on the young Apponyi was permanent . He entered parliament in 1872 as a liberal Catholic, attaching himself at first to the 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 group which followed Baron Pal Senynyey (1824-1888) and eventually became its leader . Until 1905 Count Albert was constantly in opposition, but in May of that year he consented to take office in the second Wekerle ministry . A lofty and magnetic orator, his speeches were published at Budapest in 1896; and he is the author of an interesting dissertation, Esthetics and Politics, the Artist and the Statesman ;Hung.) (Budapest, 1895) .