Andrassy, JULIUS, COUNT, a Hungarian statesman, was born at Zemplin, March 8, 1823. He was returned by his native town to the Presburg Diet of 1847, where he soon displayed oratorical and political powers of no mean order.
He threw himself heartily into the revolutionary movement of 1848, and on its defeat was exiled, retiring to France and England, until the general amnesty of 1857 enabled him to return to his own country. He was elected a member of the Hungarian Diet in 1860, where his support of the Deak party secured him the office of vice-president; and, on the reorganisation of the Anstro-Hungarian empire in 1867, he was appointed prime-minister of Hungary. The chief event of his administration was the civil and political emancipation of the Jews. In 1871 Count Andrassy became minister for foreign affairs, and in 1878 ably represented Austria at the Congress of Berlin. In 1879 he retired from public life, and died 18th February 1890.