Count Széchenyi András Andor István Mária Béla de Sárvár-Felsővidék (August 1, 1865 – March 2, 1907) was a Hungarian nobleman and traveler. He was a grandson of Count

István Széchenyi Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (, ; archaically English: Stephen Széchenyi; 21 September 1791 – 8 April 1860) was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and writer. Widely considered one of the greatest statesme ...

. He was the first-born child of Ottoman Pasha

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and Irma Almay. He traveled around the world: islands of the

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, to

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across

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and

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. His travelogue was published by Geographical Society in

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. He made attempts to travel to

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by dirigible

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Family

He married Elena Korostowzoff in the summer 1884 but they divorced in 1899. They had a son: Lipót András István Miklós Sándor Katalin (1886-1920).

References

Széchenyi Andor
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szechenyi, Andor 1865 births 1907 deaths Hungarian nobility Hungarian explorers Andor People from Pest, Hungary Explorers from Austria-Hungary