Károly Hieronymi

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Károly Hieronymi

Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 17 November 1892 – 15 January 1895
Preceded by	Gyula Szapáry
Succeeded by	Dezső Perczel
Personal details
Born	(1836-10-01)October 1, 1836 Buda, Hungary
Died	4 May 1911(1911-05-04) (aged 74) Budapest, Hungary
Political party	Liberal Party, Party of National Work
Profession	engineer, politician

The native form of this personal name is Hieronymi Károly. This article uses the Western name order.

Károly Hieronymi (1 October 1836 – 4 May 1911) was a Hungarian engineer and politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1892 and 1895. He was a supporter of former Prime Minister Kálmán Tisza. As Minister of Trade he modernized the train services, for the Hungarian State Railways he nationalized the Budapest-Pécs, the Duna-Dráva and the Zagreb-Karlovac railway lines. He insured the independence of the railway goods turnover aiming at the seaports and its tranquillity.

Memories

In Budapest there is a street named after him. His grave is in the Kerepesi Cemetery.

References

T. Boros László, Magyar politikai lexikon 1914–1929, Budapest, Európa ny., 1929.
Budapest enciklopédia, Budapest, Corvina, 1982³.
Hieronymi Károly, in: Magyar nagylexikon, IX. köt., Budapest, Magyar Nagylexikon, 1999, 467.

Political offices
Preceded by Gyula Szapáry	Minister of the Interior 1892–1895	Succeeded by Dezső Perczel

v t e Ministers of the Interior of Hungary since 1848

Revolution of 1848	Szemere

Kingdom of Hungary	Wenckheim Rajner V. Tóth Szapáry K. Tisza Orczy Baross Teleki Szapáry Hieronymi Perczel K. Széll Khuen-Héderváry I. Tisza Kristóffy Andrássy Khuen-Héderváry Lukács Sándor Ugron J. Tóth Wekerle

Transition period	Batthyány V. Nagy Landler and Vágó Peyer Samassa Perényi Beniczky

Regency	Simonyi-Semadam Dömötör Ferdinandy Tomcsányi Ráday Klebelsberg Rakovszky Scitovszky Keresztes-Fischer Kozma Darányi J. Széll Keresztes-Fischer Jaross Bonczos Schell

Transition period	Vajna Erdei I. Nagy Rajk Kádár

Communist Hungary	Zöld Házi Györe Gerő Piros Münnich Biszku Pap Benkei I. Horváth Kamara I. Horváth Gál

Republic of Hungary	B. Horváth Boross Kónya Kuncze Pintér Lamperth Bajnai Gyenesei Varga Pintér

Authority control	VIAF: 121456096

Persondata
Name	Hieronymi, Karoly
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian politician
Date of birth	1 October 1836
Place of birth	Buda, Hungary
Date of death	4 May 1911
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary

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