BERZEVICZY, ALBERT DE Hungarian politician and writer. After studying law and politics at Budapest university, he travelled extensively in Europe. He was professor of law at the Academy of Eperjes and in 1881 was returned to the Hungarian parliament by the same town. He became minister of education in 1903; from 1910-12 he was president of the House of Deputies. Berzeviczy published numerous historical and other works, among which may be mentioned Absolutism in Hun gary, vol. I., (1925) ; Landscape Painting in the 17th Century (1910). In 19o5 he was president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, over whose centenary celebrations he presided in 1925.