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Baron Béla Orczy de Orczi (16 January 1822 – 7 February 1917)
was a Hungarian politician and freedom fighter, who served as
Interior Minister between 1887 and 1889. He was also Minister of
Home Defence for several months in 1884. He took part in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848, he fought against the rebelling
Serbs in the area of Vojvodina (natively Vajdaság). He was the
de facto Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1879 and 1890. His
paternal grandfather was the famous poet Lőrinc Orczy.