Count Dénes Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (19 November 1835 – 23 February 1913) was a Hungarian nobleman, who served as chairman of the ''Hungarian Heraldic and Genealogical Society''. He was a wealthy, generous and enlightened patron of the arts.

Biography

Born into the Andrássy family, one of the most important

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, he was the son of Count György Andrássy and Countess Franziska von Königsegg-Aulendorf, member of an old

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. He married Franciska Seraphica Hablawetz (1838-1902), member of a Viennese bourgeois family.https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00580667&tree=LEO The couple didn't have children. After her death he founded Franciska Relic Museum in his birthplace. He was a member of the

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Magyar életrajzi lexikon III.: Kiegészítő kötet (A–Z).
' ed. Ágnes Kenyeres. Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó. 1981. p. 12. {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrassy, Denes 1835 births 1913 deaths People from Austria-Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Denes