Gyula Bornemisza

Baron Gyula Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (Bornemissza; 16 December 1873 – 30 December 1925) was a Hungarian aristocrat and diplomat.

Baron
Gyula Bornemisza
de Kászon et Impérfalva
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian Counter-Revolutionary Government
In office
5 May 1919 – 31 May 1919
Succeeded byPál Teleki
Personal details
Born(1873-12-16)16 December 1873
Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died30 December 1925(1925-12-30) (aged 52)
Brixen, Kingdom of Italy
NationalityHungarian
SpouseKlára Bethlen
Professiondiplomat
The native form of this personal name is kászoni és impérfalvai báró Bornemisza Gyula. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Life and career

Gyula Bornemisza was born into an old Transylvanian noble family of Székely origin, as one of the six children of royal and imperial chamberlain Baron Tivadar Bornemisza (1843–1902) and Baroness Róza Jósika. Gyula and one of his brothers, János studied at the Jesuit school of Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, then the Kalksburg College in Vienna.[1]

In 1919 he was part of the counter-revolutionary government (firstly formed in Arad) under the leadership of Count Gyula Károlyi, which was established to oppose the Hungarian Soviet Republic. In this government he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 5 May to 31 May. Along with other members of the government, Bornemisza was interned by Romanian authorities to Mezőhegyes between 9 May and 22 May, during the Romanian intervention in Hungary.[2]

In 1920 he became envoy to the embassy of the Imperial Family-in-exile in Switzerland, the actual representation of Hungary in Switzerland. From November 1920 he also officially became the head of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in Switzerland. This he remained until March 1921.[3]

Bornemisza was married to Klára Bethlen de Bethlen at Sarn bei Brixen in 1912, with whom he had four sons and a daughter.[1]

References
  1. Rébay, Magdolna: "Erdélyi főrangú családok gyermekei a kalksburgi jezsuita kollégiumban és a bécsi Theresianum gimnáziumában (1867–1918)". In. Rébay, Magdolna (ed.): "Szelíd, de szigorú és egyben nagyon igazságos bánásmódban...": Arisztokraták nevelése-oktatása Magyarországon a XIX–XX. században. Belvedere, Meridionale, 2017. p. 119.
  2. Bölöny, József – Hubai, László: Magyarország kormányai 1848–2004 [Cabinets of Hungary 1848–2004], Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004 (5th edition). p. 202.
  3. Wettstein János: A Magyar Békeküldöttség politikai naplója. Rubicon Online, retrieved 2020-07-27.
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