Gyula Szapáry

Gyula Count Szapáry de Szapár, Muraszombat et Széchy-Sziget (born November 1, 1832 in Pest , Austrian Empire , † January 20, 1905 in Opatija , Austria-Hungary ) was a Hungarian politician and Prime Minister of Hungary from 1890 to 1892 .

Gyula Szapáry (1890)

Life

Szapáry was a member of a magnate family and a large landowner. He studied law, entered the civil service, and became chief clan of Heves County . He was a member of the Budapest Diet for nine legislative terms for the Liberal Party . In 1870 he went to the Ministry of Transport as State Secretary, became Minister of the Interior in 1873, Minister of Finance in the Tisza government from 1878 to 1887 , then Minister of Transport and from 1889 Minister of Agriculture. Szapáry married Karolin Festetics de Tolna (1838-1919) in 1877 , and the marriage had seven children.

Prime Minister

During his tenure as head of government of Hungary from March 13, 1890 to November 17, 1892, laws to promote industry, social reforms and a currency reform, the conversion from silver forint to gold currency, the gold crown , were implemented under the auspices of Finance Minister Sándor Wekerle . Szapáry is described as a less than outstanding, cautious conservative politician, technocrat or bureaucrat, but he was able to rely on experienced ministers, most of whom he had taken over from Tisza's government. Therefore, his government essentially followed the policy of his predecessor. Administrative and church reforms did not succeed, however, and after the national opposition gained ground in the parliamentary elections in 1892, Szapáry resigned in favor of Wekerle.

literature

Zoltán Szász: Szapáry, Gyula Graf , in: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 4. Munich 1981, p. 248 f.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Szapáry, Julius Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 41st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, pp. 165–167 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Ágnes Széchenyi (ed.): Móric Kornfeld: Reflections of twentieth century Hungary. A Hungarian magnate's view. Boulder Publishing, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-88033-614-7 , p. 70.
^ ^A ^b Peter F. Sugar (Ed.): A history of Hungary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1990, ISBN 0-253-20867-X , pp. 268f.
^ Alan Palmer : Twilight of the Habsburgs. The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-87113-665-1 , p. 269.
^ Alice Freifeld: Nationalism and the crowd in liberal Hungary, 1848-1914. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC, 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6462-3 , p. 263.
^ András Gerő: Modern Hungarian society in the making. The unfinished experience . Central European Univ. Press, Budapest 1995, ISBN 1-85866-024-6 , p. 131.
^ Robert A. Kann : A history of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1980, ISBN 0-520-04206-9 , p. 454.

personal data
SURNAME	Szapáry, Gyula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Szapáry de Szapár, Gyula Muraszombat et Széchy-Sziget
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian politician and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pest , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1905
Place of death	Opatija

[1] Ágnes Széchenyi (ed.): Móric Kornfeld: Reflections of twentieth century Hungary. A Hungarian magnate's view. Boulder Publishing, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-88033-614-7 , p. 70.

[Sugar-2] A ^b Peter F. Sugar (Ed.): A history of Hungary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1990, ISBN 0-253-20867-X , pp. 268f.

[3] Alan Palmer : Twilight of the Habsburgs. The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-87113-665-1 , p. 269.

[4] Alice Freifeld: Nationalism and the crowd in liberal Hungary, 1848-1914. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC, 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6462-3 , p. 263.

[5] András Gerő: Modern Hungarian society in the making. The unfinished experience . Central European Univ. Press, Budapest 1995, ISBN 1-85866-024-6 , p. 131.

[6] Robert A. Kann : A history of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1980, ISBN 0-520-04206-9 , p. 454.