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Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (27 September 1854 – 17 February 1912) was an Austrian diplomat. He pressed ahead with the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 on the basis of a secret agreement with Russian foreign minister Alexander Izvolsky. The annexation ultimately destroyed Austro-Russian preparedness to collaborate on settling Balkan questions, and stirred chauvinist popular emotion in Russia which felt humiliated in a sphere of vital interest to it. 〔 Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, p 86〕 〔Fay, p. 394.〕 == Origins == Born at Groß Skal Castle in Bohemia (present-day Hrubá Skála, Czech Republic),〔Wank, Solomon (2009), (''In the twilight of empire: Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854-1912), Volume 1: The Making of an Imperial Habsburg Patriot and Statesman)'' ), Bohlau. p. 27. ISBN 3-205-78352-2〕 he was the second-born son of Baron (''Freiherr'') Johann Lexa von Aehrenthal (1817–1898), a large-scale landowner in Groß Skal and Doksany, and his wife Marie, ''née'' Countess Thun und Hohenstein.〔 His great-grandfather Johann Anton Lexa (1733-1824), from a rural background in Kralovice, had founded an insurance company in Prague and was ennobled in 1790. In his lifetime Aehrenthal was often claimed to be of partly Jewish descent. Examples abound. Thus according to German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, Aehrenthal was the grandson of a certain Lexa, a Jewish grain merchant of Prague ennobled in the nineteenth century under the name of Aehrenthal (literally 'valley of grain') in allusion to his calling; this ostensible Jewish strain led German Emperor Wilhelm II to refer to him less respectfully simply as Lexa in his marginal notes. Aehrenthal's erstwhile collaborator Lützow wrote after falling out with him that Aehrenthal displayed 'semitic cunning'. Aehrenthal however had no Jewish ancestors. The insinuations of Jewish ancestry may have inflamed his profound antisemitism.〔A Case of Aristocratic Antisemitism in Austria Count Aehrenthal and the Jews, 1878–1907 BY SOLOMON WANK, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1985〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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