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BARON DEZSO [DESIDERIUS] BANFFY (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON DEZSO [See also:DESIDERIUS] See also:BANFFY (1843– )  , Hungarian statesman, the son of See also:Baron See also:Daniel See also:Banffy and See also:Anna Gyarfas, was See also:born at Klausenburg on the 28th of See also:October 1843, and educated at the See also:Berlin and See also:Leipzig See also:universities . As See also:lord See also:lieutenant of the See also:county of Belso-Szolnok, See also:chief See also:captain of KSvar and See also:curator of the Calvinistic See also:church of Transylvania, Banffy exercised considerable See also:political See also:influence outside See also:parliament from 1875 onwards, but his public career may be said to have begun in 1892, when he became See also:speaker of the See also:house of deputies . As speaker he continued, however, to be a party-See also:man (he had always been a member of the See also:left-centre or See also:government party) and materially assisted the government by his rulings . He was a stringent adversary of the radicals, and caused some sensation by absenting himself from the See also:capital on the occasion of See also:Kossuth's funeral on the 1st of See also:April 1894 . On the 14th of See also:January 1895, the See also:king, after the fall of the Szell See also:ministry, entrusted him with the formation of a See also:cabinet . His See also:programme, in brief, was the carrying through of the church reform See also:laws with all due regard to clerical susceptibilities, and the See also:maintenance of the See also:Composition of 1867, whilst fully guaranteeing the predominance of See also:Hungary . He succeeded in carrying the remaining ecclesiastical bills through the Upper House, despite the vehement opposition of the papal See also:nuncio See also:Agliardi, a See also:triumph which brought about the fall of Kaln6ky, the See also:minister for See also:foreign affairs, but greatly strengthened the ministry in Hungary . In the ensuing elections of 1896 the government won a gigantic See also:majority . The drastic electoral methods of Banffy had, however, contributed somewhat to this result, and the corrupt practices were the pretext for the fierce opposition in the House which he henceforth had to encounter, though the See also:measures which he now introduced (the Honved See also:Officers' See also:Schools See also:Bill) would, in normal circumstances, have been received with See also:general See also:enthusiasm . Banffy's resoluteness enabled him to See also:weather all these storms, and his subsequent negotiations with See also:Austria as to the See also:quota and commercial See also:treaties, to the considerable political See also:advantage of Hungary, even enabled him for a See also:time to live at See also:peace with the opposition . But in 1898 the opposition, now animated by See also:personal hatred, took advantage of the ever-increasing difficulties of the government in the negotiations with Austria, and refused to pass the See also:budget till a definite understanding had been arrived at . They refused to be satisfied with anything See also:short of the dismissal of Banffy, and See also:passion ran so high that on the 3rd of January 1899 Banffy fought a See also:duel with his most See also:bitter opponent, Horanszky .

On the 26th of See also:

February Banffy resigned, to See also:save the See also:country from its " ex-lex," or unconstitutional situation; he was decorated by the king and received the freedom of the See also:city of Buda . Subsequently he contributed to overthrow the See also:Stephen See also:Tisza See also:administration, and in May 1905 joined the Kossuth ministry . See See also:article " Banffy," by Marczall, in See also:Pallas Nagy Lexikona, See also:Kilt 17 . (R . N .

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