KAROLYI

karolyi, aloys, count (1825-1889), austro-hungarian diplomatist, was born in vienna on the 8th of august 1825. the greatness of the hungarian family of karolyi dates from the time of alexander karolyi (1668-1743), one of the generals of francis rakoczy ii., who in 1711 negotiated the peace of szatmar between the insurgent hungarians and the new king, the emperor charles vi., was made a count of the empire in 1712, and subsequently became a field marshal in the imperial army. aloys karolyi entered the austrian diplomatic service, and was attached successively to embassies at various european capitals. in 1858 he was sent to st petersburg on a special mission to seek the support of russia against napoleon iii. he was ambassador at berlin in 1866 at the time of the rupture between prussia and austria, and after the seven weeks' war was charged with the negotiation of the preliminaries of peace at nikolsburg. he was again sent to berlin in 1871, acted as second plenipotentiary at the berlin congress of 1878, and was sent in the same year to london, where he represented austria for ten years. he died on the 2nd of december 1889 at totmegyer.