Sándor Apponyi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sándor Apponyi

Hungarian diplomat

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1844

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1925

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Sándor Apponyi

  • Count Sándor Apponyi de Nagyappony (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector. Born in Paris, where his father, Count Rudolf Apponyi, was a diplomat, Sándor also became a diplomat.
  • After his father's death he moved to Hungary, and improved his collection.
  • He married Alexandra Esterházy. Working as a Hungarian diplomat in London and Paris he was able to meet many great book lovers who inspired him to collect old printed books, especially works about Hungary by foreign writers.
  • He purchased books from foreign and Hungarian antiquarians and at auction.
  • Thus he was able to amass a collection of interesting historical, arithmetical, biological, geographical and philosophical works in many languages: German, French, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, English and Latin.
  • Known as the Apponyi Hungarika, this fine collection is now held in the National Széchényi Library, Budapest, and contains about 3,000 books on a wide range of interesting topics.
  • We can read about the siege and taking of Buda or Belgrade by the Christian army and about Rákóczi's war of independence.
  • Also there is a book by Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli about coffee, from the planting of the shrub to the serving of the drink.
  • As he had family links through his ancestry with Isotta Nogarola, one of the most famous female humanists of the Italian Renaissance, Sándor Apponyi collected books about her era.
  • This small collection of about 300 works is named Apponyi Rariora.
  • In it can be found the same breadth of topics as in the Apponyi Hungarika, but it is focused on the Italian city of Verona. He compiled a catalogue of his books in which he added comments to the bibliographical data. A special law was adopted by the Hungarian National Assembly to acknowledge the donation of the collection: it mentions several other comparable donations but adds that "Among all these generous, valuable donations, that of Count [Sándor] Apponyi is by far the most important."Count Sándor Apponyi owned the Castle of Lengyel in Southern Transdanubia, which was later transformed into a school.
  • A bust of him stands in front of the building.

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