Imre Csáky (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
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- This article is about the politician. For the cardinal see Imre Csáky (cardinal).
Count Imre Csáky de Körösszeg et Adorján (16 February 1882 - 22 May 1961) was a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1920. His father was Albin Csáky
Albin Csáky
Count Albin Csáky de Körösszeg et Adorján was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1888 and 1894. He finished his secondary school studies in Lőcse, then he learnt in Kassa. He became representative of the Diet of Hungary in 1862...
, a former Minister of Education.
Having completed his studies at the Vienna
Vienna
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Orientalistic Academy (later Consular Academy) he joined the diplomatic service and served successively in Dresden
Dresden
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, Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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, Berlin
Berlin
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, Bucharest
Bucharest
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and Warsaw
Warsaw
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.
He was instrumental in negotiating the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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and of the Treaty of Bucharest (1916). He was a member of the Hungarian peace delegation of 1920. As such he conducted negotiations, among others, with Maurice Paléologue
Maurice Paléologue
Maurice Paléologue was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist.-Biography:Paléologue was born in Paris as the son of Alexandru Paleologu, a Wallachian Romanian revolutionary who had fled to France after attempting to assassinate Prince Gheorghe Bibescu during the 1848 Wallachian revolution;...
, the French secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Csáky
Csák (family)
Csák was the name of a gens in the Kingdom of Hungary. The Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum records that the ancestor of the family was Szabolcs, son of chieftain Előd, the leader of one of the seven Magyar tribes. The family was probably connected to the Árpád dynasty...
was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Teleki
Pál Teleki
Pál Count Teleki de Szék was prime minister of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a university professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scout Association...
government. He resigned two months later.
Imre Csáky was persecuted after the collapse of Horthy's Hungary, and even more so spending many years in jail during Communism.
He died on the Canary Islands on his way to exile in Venezuela
Venezuela
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.
Autobiography
- Eva-Marie Csáky (editor) Vom Geachteten zum Geächteten Böhlau, Wien, 1992. ISBN 978-3205982289