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

Life and career

Gyula Bornemisza was born into an old

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n 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

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school of

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in Feldkirch, then the Kalksburg College in

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.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. In 1919 he was part of the counter-revolutionary government (firstly formed in Arad) under the leadership of Count

Gyula Károlyi Gyula Count Károlyi de Nagykároly in English: Julius Károlyi (7 May 1871 – 23 April 1947) was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932. He had previously been prime minister of the coun ...

, which was established to oppose the

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. 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. In 1920 he became envoy to the embassy of the

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-in-exile in

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, 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.Wettstein János
A Magyar Békeküldöttség politikai naplója
Rubicon Online, retrieved 2020-07-27. Bornemisza was married to Klára Bethlen de Bethlen at Sarn bei Brixen in 1912, with whom he had four sons and a daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bornemisza, Gyula 1873 births 1925 deaths Politicians from Cluj-Napoca Hungarian nobility in Transylvania Ambassadors of Hungary to Switzerland Ministers of foreign affairs of Hungary Diplomats from Cluj-Napoca