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COUNT ALOYS KAROLYI (1825-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 682 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT ALOYS See also:KAROLYI (1825-1889)  , Austro-Hungarian diplomatist, was See also:born in See also:Vienna on the 8th of See also:August 1825 . The greatness of the Hungarian See also:family of See also:Karolyi See also:dates from the See also:time of See also:Alexander Karolyi (1668-1743), one of the generals of See also:Francis Rak6czy II., who in 1711 negotiated the See also:peace of Szatmar between the insurgent Hungarians and the new See also:king, the See also:emperor See also:Charles VI., was made a See also:count of the See also:Empire in 1712, and subsequently became a See also:field See also:marshal in the imperial See also:army . Aloys Karolyi entered the See also:Austrian See also:diplomatic service, and was attached successively to embassies at various See also:European capitals . In 1858 he was sent to St See also:Petersburg on a See also:special See also:mission to seek the support of See also:Russia against 'See also:Napoleon HI . He was See also:ambassador at See also:Berlin in 1866 at the time of the rupture between See also:Prussia and See also:Austria, and after the Seven See also:Weeks' See also:War was charged with the negotiation of the preliminaries of peace at See also:Nikolsburg . He was again sent to Berlin in 1871, acted as second plenipotentiary at the Berlin See also:congress of 1878, and was sent in the same See also:year to See also:London, where he represented Austria for ten years . He died on the 2nd of See also:December 1889 at T6tmegyer .

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