Anton of Apponyi

Anton Apponyi (1782–1852), ambassador to the French court

Count Anton Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi (* December 7, 1782 , † October 17, 1852 ; also Antoine Comte de Apponyi ) was a diplomat of the Austrian Empire.

Life

Anton Apponyi came from the Hungarian noble family Apponyi . His father Anton Georg von Apponyi (* December 4, 1751, † March 17, 1817) was the founder of the 50,000-volume family library.

Apponyi studied Hungarian literature and acted as a promoter of science, art and industry. He acted as envoy at the Baden court in Karlsruhe , the Tuscan court in Florence and the Holy See in Rome . In 1826 he was appointed ambassador to Paris and remained in that position until 1849.

family

On August 17, 1808 Apponyi married the Countess Therese von Nogarola (1790–1874). Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall writes in his memoirs that she was "an excellent singer". In 1836 Frédéric Chopin dedicated his Nocturnes op.27 to her .

Count Rudolph II (born August 1, 1812), who has served as envoy at the Turin court since 1849, comes from the marriage .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Apponyi, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 57 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 419.

Web links

Wikisource: BLKÖ: Apponyi, Anton - sources and full texts

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Marian von Falkach	kk Austrian envoy in Karlsruhe 1810–1813	Hermann von Greiffenegg-Wolffurt
Johann Rudolf von Buol-Schauenstein	kk Austrian envoy in Florence 1815–1820	Adam of Ficquelmont
Aloys von Kaunitz-Rietberg	kk Austrian envoy in Rome 1820–1826	Rudolf von Lützow
Friedrich Binder von Krieglstein	Imperial and Royal Austrian Ambassador in Paris 1826–1848	Ludwig von Thom

personal data
SURNAME	Apponyi, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Apponyi, Antoine; Nagy-Apponyi, Anton Apponyi from; Nagy-Apponyi, Count Anton Apponyi von; Apponyi, Antoine Comte de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Diplomat of the Austrian Empire
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1782
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1852

[1] Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 419.