page_title: Albert Apponyi
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Apponyi / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Gróf nagyapponyi Apponyi Albert György (Bécs, 1846. május 29. – Genf, 1933. február 7.) politikus, miniszter, belső titkos tanácsos, nagybirtokos, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja. Jászberény város aranymandátumos képviselője.
context_page_description: Albert György Gyula Mária Apponyi, Count of Nagyappony was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician. He was a Board Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of St Stephen Academy from 1921 to 1933, and a knight of the Austrian Golden Fleece from 1921.
context_section_description: 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 an ancient noble family dating back to the 13th century. He married Clotilde von Mensdorff-Pouilly in 1897. Until expropriation by Czechoslovakia following World War I, he owned the family castle in Éberhard, now Malinovo, Slovakia, where he entertained guests including Theodore Roosevelt during his tour of Europe in 1910. Roosevelt described Apponyi as "an advanced Liberal in matters political but also in matters ecclesiastical" and "like an American Liberal of the best type."
  Count Albert Apponyi became a member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1872 and remained a member almost uninterrupted until his death, most of the time for the constituency of Jászberény where he was first elected in 1881 and which he still represented half a century later. 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 was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from 31 October 1901 to 6 November 1903.
caption: 21 years old Albert Apponyi.
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