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COUNT KAROLY ZICHY (1753—1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT KAROLY ZICHY (1753—1826)  was See also:Austrian See also:war See also:minister in 1809 and minister of the interior in 1813—1814; his son, See also:COUNT See also:FERDINAND (1783—1862) was the Austrian See also:field-See also:marshal condemned to ten years' imprisonment for surrendering See also:Venice to the insurgents in 1848 (he was pardoned in 1851) . COUNT ODON [See also:EDMUND] ZICHY (1809—1848), See also:administrator of the See also:county of Veszprem, was hanged on the 30th of See also:September 1848 by See also:order of a Hungarian See also:court-See also:martial, presided over by See also:Gorgei, for acting as See also:Jellachich's emissary to the imperial See also:general See also:Roth . COUNT FERENC ZICHY (1811-1900) was secretary of See also:state for See also:commerce in the See also:Szechenyi See also:ministry of 1848, but retired on the outbreak of the revolution, joined the imperial See also:side, and acted as imperial See also:commissary; from 1874 to 188o he was Austrian See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople . COUNT ODON ZICHY (1811—1894) was remarkable for his See also:great activity in promoting See also:art and See also:industry in See also:Austria-See also:Hungary; he founded the See also:Oriental Museum in See also:Vienna . His son, COUNT EUGEN ZICHY (b . 1837), inherited his See also:father's notable collections, and followed him in his economic activities; he three times visited the See also:Caucasus and Central See also:Asia to investigate the See also:original seat of the See also:Magyars, See also:publishing as the result Voyages au Caucase (2 vols., See also:Budapest, 1897) and Dritte asiatische Forschungsreise (6 vols., in Magyar and See also:German; Budapest and See also:Leipzig, 1900—1905) . COUNT FERDINAND ZICHY (b . 1829), See also:vice-See also:president of the Hungarian stadtholdership under the Mailath regime, was condemned in 1863 under the See also:press See also:laws to the loss of his titles and to imprisonment . In 1867 he was elected- to the Hungarian See also:parliament, at first joining the party of Dealt, and subsequently becoming one of the founders and leaders of the See also:Catholic See also:People's Party (see HUNGARY, See also:History) . His second son, COUNT ALADAR ZICHY (b . 1864), also a member of the Catholic People's Party, was made minister of the royal See also:house-hold in the See also:Wekerle See also:cabinet of 1906 . COUNT JANOS ZICHY (b .

1868), also from 1896 to 1906 a member of the Catholic People's Party in the See also:

Lower House, and after rgo6 attached to See also:Andrassy's Constitutional Party, was of importance as the confidant of the See also:heir to the See also:throne, the See also:Archduke See also:Francis Ferdinand . COUNT GEZA ZICHY (b . 1849), See also:nephew of the Count Ferenc mentioned above, studied under See also:Liszt and be-came a professional pianist; in 1891 he became See also:intendant of the Hungarian See also:national See also:opera-house, a member of the Hungarian Upper House and See also:head of the See also:Conservatoire at Budapest . COUNT MIHALY ZICHY (b . 1829), one of the most conspicuous Hungarian painters, was appointed court painter at St See also:Peters-See also:burg in 1847 and accompanied the See also:Russian emperors on their various journeys . The National See also:Gallery at Budapest possesses some of his paintings, notably that of " See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth before the See also:coffin of Francis See also:Deak "; but he is best known for his illustrations of the See also:works of the great Magyar writers (Petofy, See also:Arany, &c.) .

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