BAROSS, GABOR (1848-1892), Hungarian statesman, was born at Trencsen on July 6, 1848, and educated at Esztergom. He entered parliament in 1875, and attached himself to Kalman Tisza. In 1883 he was appointed secretary to the ministry of ways and communications, and in 1886 he was appointed minister of ways and communications. The gigantic network of the Austro Hungarian railway system and its unification was mainly his work. He regulated the Danube at the hitherto impassable Iron Gates Rapids by building canals to open up the eastern trade to Hun gary. The amalgamation of the ministry of commerce with the ministry of ways in 1889 further enabled Baross to revise the tolls. This nationalist policy provoked protests both from Austria and Germany at the Conference of Vienna in 189o, and Baross was obliged somewhat to modify his system. He died on May 8, 1892. See Laszlo Petrovics, Biography of Gabriel Baross (Hung. Eperies, 1892).