Albert Apponyi
| Albert Apponyi | |
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| Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary | |
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In office 8 April 1906 – 17 January 1910 |
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| Preceded by | Gyula Tost |
| Succeeded by | Ferenc Székely |
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In office 15 June 1917 – 8 May 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Béla Jankovich |
| Succeeded by | János Zichy |
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29 May 1846 Vienna, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 7 February 1933 (aged 86) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Political party | Deák Party, Liberal Party, National Party, Independence Party |
| Spouse(s) | Clothilde von Mensdorff-Pouilly |
| Children | II. György Alexander Mária Alexandrina Julianna |
| Profession | politician |
Albert Apponyi de Nagyappony (29 May 1846 – 7 February 1933) was a Hungarian nobleman and politician.
He was born on 29 May 1846, in Vienna, where his father, Count György Apponyi, was the resident Hungarian Chancellor at the time. He belonged to from an ancient noble family dating back to the 13th century. Count Albert Apponyi became a member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1872 and remained a member of it, with one short exception, until 1918. From the late 1880s, he was the leader of the “united opposition,” which consisted of all parties hostile to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. He married Clotilde Apponyi in 1897.
He was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from 31 October 1901 to 6 November 1903.
As the minister of education he drafted the laws, sometimes called Apponyi laws, passed in 1907 in which the process of Magyarization culminated. Reading, writing and counting in primary schools was done exclusively in Hungarian for the first four years of education. Approximately 600 Romanian villages were left without education as a result of the law. By 1917, 2,975 Romanian primary schools were closed.
After World War I, Apponyi’s most notable public office was his appointment in 1920 to lead the Hungarian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference to present Hungary’s case to the Allied and Associated Powers assembled there to determine the terms of the peace treaty with Hungary, which subsequently became known as the Treaty of Trianon on account of it having been signed in the Grand Hall of the Palace of Trianon. In the event, Apponyi’s mission to Versailles was in vain as the Allies refused to negotiate the terms of the peace treaty.
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