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Beni Kallay

Beni Kallay de Nagy-Kallo or Benjamin von Kallay ( Hungarian : Kallay Benjamin ; ( 1839-12-22 ) 22 December 1839 ? ( 1903-07-13 ) 13 July 1903) was an Austro-Hungarian statesman and a Hungarian nobleman .

Early life [ edit ]

Kallay was born in Pest (today part of Budapest ). His family derived their name from their estates at Nagykallo , in Szabolcs , and claimed descent from the Balogh Semsen tribe, which had settled the area of the historical Borsod County , Szabolcs County , and Szatmar County in the late 9th century. They played a prominent part in Hungarian history as early as the reign of King Coloman (1070?1116); and from King Matthias Corvinus (1458?1490) they received their estates at Mez?tur , near Kecskemet , granted to Mihaly Kallay for his heroic defense of Jajce in Bosnia . [1]

Stephan von Kallay, Benjamin's father, a superior official of the Hungarian government, died in 1845, and his widow, who survived until 1902, devoted herself to the education of her five-year-old son. Amalie von Kallay nee Bla?kovi? de Ebetske, was of Serbian descent. She took over the care of Kallay's education and directed his interest to Slavic studies in general and particularly to Serbian history. She spoke Serbian and it is very likely that her son heard some of her reminiscences relating to the country of her ancestors. [2] She engaged an excellent teacher in the person of Mihaly Tancsics , a well-known populist tribune and revolutionary writer of Serb and Slovak descent, who was once imprisoned by the Austrians for seditious writings in 1847?48 and again in 1860 (the same Buda jail that Lajos Kossuth was incarcerated from 1837?40). [3] At an early age Kallay manifested a deep interest in politics, and especially in the Eastern Question . He traveled in Russia , European Turkey and Asia Minor , gaining a thorough knowledge of Greek , Turkish , and several Slavic languages. He became as proficient in Serbian as in his native tongue. [1]

Career [ edit ]

In 1867 he entered the Diet of Hungary as Conservative deputy for Muhlbach (Szaszsebes); in 1869 he was appointed consul-general at Belgrade , and in 1872 he visited the Vilayet of Bosnia for the first time. His views on Balkan questions strongly influenced Count Andrassy , the Austro-Hungarian minister for foreign affairs. Leaving Belgrade in 1875, he resumed his seat in the Diet, and shortly afterward founded the journal Kelet Nepe , or People of the East , in which he defended the vigorous policy of Andrassy. [1]

After the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 he went to Plovdiv (modern Bulgaria ) as Austro-Hungarian envoy extraordinary on the International Eastern Rumelian Commission. In 1879, he became second, and soon afterward first, departmental chief at the foreign office in Vienna . On 4 June 1882, he was appointed Austro-Hungarian minister of finance and administrator of the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the distinction with which he filled this office, for a period of 21 years, is his chief title of fame. [1]

Kallay was an honorary member of the Budapest and Vienna academies of science, and attained some eminence as a writer. He translated John Stuart Mill 's On Liberty into Hungarian, adding an introductory critique; while his version of Galatea , a play by the Greek dramatist Spiridion N. Basiliades (1843?1874), proved successful on the Hungarian stage. His monographs on Serbian history ( Geschichte der Serben ) was translated into Serbo-Croatian by Gavrilo Vitkovi? , and on the Oriental ambition of Russia ( Die Orientpolitik Russlands ) was translated into German by J. H. Schwicker and published at Leipzig in 1878. But in his own opinion, his masterpiece was an academic oration on the political and geographical position of Hungary as a link between East and West. [1]

Personal life [ edit ]

In 1873, Kallay married the Countess Vilma Bethlen de Bethlen (1850-1940). They had three surviving daughters and a son:

  • Marta Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (1875?1891)
  • Frigyes Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (1877?1944) ? Baroness Elisabeth Aloysia Klementina Vay de Vaya (1877?1922); had issue ? Amalia Maria Kover de Gyergyoszentmiklos (b. 1880)
    • Ilona Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (d. 1908)
    • Gyorgy Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (1902?1968) ? Charlotte Varady de Varad (1900-1970); had issue:
      • Istvan Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (b. 1935)
    • Laszlo Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (d. 1928)
  • Erzsebet Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (d. 1945)
  • Magdolna Kallay de Nagy-Kallo (d. 1954)

Death [ edit ]

Benjamin died in Vienna on 13 July 1903, while his wife Vilma outlived him for more than 37 years and died in Nogradberczel on 25 August 1940. [1]

See also [ edit ]

Notes [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c d e f   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Kallay, Benjamin von ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 643.
  2. ^ Milojkovic-Djuric, Jelena (2002). "Benjamin von Kallay: consul and historian in Serbia from 1868 to 1875". East European Quarterly . 36 (4). University of Colorado at Boulder.
  3. ^ Feldman, Andrea (2017). "Kallay's dilemma on the challenge of creating a manageable identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1882-1903)" . hrcak.srce.hr .
  4. ^ Beni Kallay, Bosniakism (2004). Unitary Bosnia by Kallay . ISBN   9780816050529 . Retrieved 19 October 2014 .

References [ edit ]

  • Kallay von Nagy-Kallo, Beni. In: Osterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815?1950 (OBL). Vol 3, Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p.196.(German)
Political offices
Preceded by Joint Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary
1882?1903 		Succeeded by

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