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COUNT ALBERT APPONYI (1846- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 226 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT See also:ALBERT See also:APPONYI (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 See also: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 See also:Count See also: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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