[Count]. Hungarian statesman, born on the 18th of April 1841 at Krompach, in the county of Szepes, and studied law at Kassa (Kaschau) and Budapest. Deputy in 1865, he was from 1868 to 1880 Obergespan (lord-lieutenant), in which capacity he gained the reputation of an excellent administrator. In 1884 he pleaded eloquently in the House of Magnates for the establishment of civil marriage, and in 1888 was Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Koloman Tisza. Together with Szilagyi, the Minister of Justice, Csaky was one of the most decided champions of obligatory civil marriage and of the rights of the Jews. He resigned in 1894, and in 1900 was appointed president of the House of Magnates, an office which he resigned on the fall of the Liberal party in 1906. Under the Khuen-Héderváry Government he became on June 18, 1910, once more president of the House of Magnates.
