Albin Csáky | |
Order: | Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary |
Term Start: | 22 September 1888 |
Term End: | 10 June 1894 |
Predecessor: | Gábor Baross |
Successor: | Loránd Eötvös |
Birth Date: | 1841 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Korompa, Kingdom of Hungary |
Death Place: | Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
Profession: | politician |
Party: | Liberal Party (1887-1898, 1899-1906) National Party of Work (1906-1912) |
Spouse: | Anna Bolza |
Children: | István Mária László Eleonóra Károly Ilona Imre |
Count Albin Csáky de Körösszeg et Adorján (19 April 1841 – 15 December 1912) 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. 1900–1906 and 1910–1912 he served as Speaker of the House of Magnates.
Born into a prominent Hungarian noble family, Albin Csáky was the second son of Count Ágost Csáky de Körösszeg et Adorján (1803–1883) and his wife, Baroness Iphigenia Prónay de Tótpróna et Blatnicza (1807-1874).
As minister for religion and education in 1890, Csáky introduced an ordinance to enforce the existing mixed-marriage laws, which stipulated that children of mixed marriages should be baptised in the faith corresponding to the parent of the same sex. The Catholic Church had been regularly defying these laws, and Csáky hoped to bring an end to this, but his actions provoked a strong hostile reaction from the Church.[1]
On 24 September 1866 in Szarvas, he was married to Countess Anna Bolza (1847-1925), daughter of Count István Bolza (1817-1880) and his wife, Countess Alojzia Vay de Vaja et Luskod (124-1849). They had six children: