APPONYI, ALBERT, COUNT Hungarian statesman, the most distinguished member of an ancient noble family, dating back to the 13th century, and son of the chancellor Gyorgy Apponyi (1808-99) and the accomplished and saintly Countess Julia Sztaray, was born at Pest on May 29, 1846. Edu cated at the Jesuit seminary at Kalksburg and at the universities of Vienna and Pest, a long foreign tour completed his curriculum, and at Paris he made the acquaintance of Montalembert, a kin dred spirit, whose influence on the young Apponyi was permanent. He entered parliament in 1872 as a liberal Catholic, attaching him self at first to the Deak party ; but the feudal and ultramontane traditions of his family circle profoundly modified, though they could never destroy, his popular ideals. On the break up of the Deal party he attached himself to the conservative group which followed Baron Pal Senynyey (1824-88) and eventually became its leader. Until 1905 Count Albert was constantly in opposition, but in May of that year he consented to take office in the second Wekerle ministry. From 1906-10 he was Minister of Education in the Wekerle Cabinet. He succeeded Kossuth as president of the party of Hungarian Independence and advocated universal suffrage. At the outbreak of the World War he adopted the stand point of a "truce of God" with regard to all internal dissensions. He retired into private life after the outbreak of the revolution of Oct. 1918. In 1919 he was elected as a non-party deputy to the National Assembly and was head of the Hungarian peace delega tion in Paris. He became a member of the League of Nations Union and in 1924 and 1925 represented Hungary at the Assem blies of the League of Nations, where his magnetic oratory made a great impression. He stood above rather than outside party poli tics, and his authority as the "Grand Old Man" of the nation carried unusual moral weight. He died Feb. 7, His published works include Recollections of a Statesman (1912) ; "Die rechtliche Natur der Beziehungen zwischen Osterreich and Ungarn" in the Osterreichische Rundschau (vol. 28) ; in Hungarian: My Memoirs: 5o years, vol. I ; Youth, 25 years in Opposition (1922). Two volumes of parliamentary speeches were published (1897) relating to the 25 years' activity mentioned in the first volume of the Memoirs.